And its his continued ability to appeal to those people that grants him continued authority against an ever rising bureaucracy

Whenever such a leader loses that tie to the people, his power diminishes

Just read that caption as well <:tucker:587843675413807106>

@WWM you're talking about cult figures. I wouldnt call hitler a cult leader though

"cult"

Hitler spoke to the archaic portions of the People, as well as the rational side.

He was a master at this.

He called people to *transcendent action*.

And I identify that as religious

Fundamentally

what differentiates a religion from a cult in your opinion.

just asking

the second one looks like my grandad

Those pictures are pretty humanizing

Religions have a formal method of replacing leadership.

so formal vs informal

@vicmaxim usually not a lot

Religions usually have more worked out dogmas

They are more institutionally robust

Cults don't have a method of replacing leadership. They end with the leader.

Where's the gif of that girl giving Adolf her foot?

Yes

Cults tend to be personality centered more solely

Ok now its comming together

some of you will get the basdf last

@TheUserNameofPeace Was Hitler the one with the vision calling the shots, or was he just a mascot used by other people for their vision?

@Trommm Started as the former, ended as the later

At least more towards the later

I read Mein Kampf, and it seemed like all of the ideas came from him. But then I heard Mein Kampf had multiple authors.

The real assurance of leadership is to have the rhetoric and spirito-religious abilities of Hitler in conjunction with a tight personal hold on some form of hydraulic despotism.

Hess didn't add his own content?

I always heard he wrote it in prison

Hess was his cell mate .

Editors usually change works, Trommm, a bit

Normal

Hitler had a lot of tutors so I wouldnt be suprised a lot of his ideas would sound like someone elses

which is why Mein Kampf reads a little chaotically

We all inherit ideas

And then hopefully work from them to something new

We inherit memes as Dawkins says