Even given the political kinks of the writer, who is probably just a kid after all, it's not a terrible article. There are some reasonable take-aways. . That

Even given the political kinks of the writer, who is probably just a kid after all, it's not a terrible article. There are some reasonable take-aways. . That 'Signal' existed. It's pretty interesting really, I've got a few hardbound volumes in one of my history book hoards. Worth looking at. . Propaganda is everywhere. The hard part is seeing it in your own world, not others'. . History is complicated. Historian's fallacy is real. Watch out. . Nazis will fascinate people for a long time. I honestly think that a big part of it is their use of symbols, imagery, snappy uniforms, bigger-than-life super villains. An absolutely ridiculous belief system, but that never stopped groups of people from buying into things. Of course sociology is largely self-serving BS (see: Stanislav Andreski: Social Sciences as Sorcery) but then so are a lot of other soft disciplines. You can't blame these people for riding a wave. To tie it back into the article, much of sociology is an attempt to program people with your own belief system, not to understand and predict. Perhaps it's just the advertising business with a figleaf of science.