There was a great scene in the last LOTR book where one of the hobbits is talking to a human guard and they are talking about the deep state. I could actually feel the evil pass over me as the audiobook narrator read a certain passage.
Only an authoritarian government, firmly tied to a people, can lead the people over the long term. Political propaganda, the art of anchoring matters of state in the broad masses so the whole nation will feel a part of them, cannot therefore be a means of winning power. It must become a means of building and keeping power. - J Goebbels
There was a great scene in the last LOTR book where one of the hobbits is talking to a human guard and they are talking about the deep state. I could actually feel the evil pass over me as the audiobook narrator read a certain passage.
It’s an ancient evil.
How was the audiobook? The one I see on Audible has only one narrator; is he incredibly talented, or kinda boring?
Except for the singing parts, it's very well done.
Only an authoritarian government, firmly tied to a people, can lead the people over the long term. Political propaganda, the art of anchoring matters of state in the broad masses so the whole nation will feel a part of them, cannot therefore be a means of winning power. It must become a means of building and keeping power. - J Goebbels
Without a bit of discernment, anything means everything.