Episode 33: Inhuman

*Updated: 2022-03-01

NOTE: New Audio file has been uploaded to fix minor audio problems in the original release

At various times in history, society has chosen to exclude groups of people from the normal workings of civilization. This has often included a campaign of gradual dehumanization of the to-be excluded group. In this episode we discuss the various stages of dehumanization and explore whether those yet unvaccinated for Covid-19 are the new subjects of a rapidly moving dehumanization program.

Episode Timeline & Notes

0:00:34 - Opening

• Maxime Bernier on Twitter | Trudeau's fascist rhetoric
• Matthew B on Twitter | Translation of Trudeau's fascist rhetoric

0:03:45 - Dangerous Rhetoric

• Metaxas, Eric. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. Thomas Nelson; Revised, Updated edition, 2020.
• Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Reissue edition, 2010.
• Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classic, 2017.
• Desmet, Mattias. The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022.

0:07:28 - Five Stages of Dehumanization

• Totalitarianism and the Five Stages of Dehumanization | Christiaan Alting von Geusau | Brownstone Institute

0:07:52 - First Step - The creation and political instrumentalization of fear

• Dodsworth, Laura. A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic. Pinter & Martin, 2021.
• Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists | Telegraph
• Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists | CNBS News
• Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response | Nature Human Behaviour
• Yahoo! News | Pfizer expects to make nearly as much revenue just from COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 as it earned in all of 2020
• CNBC | Pfizer expects $54 billion in 2022 sales on Covid vaccine and treatment pill
• Kelly Brown on Twitter | "Since August, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Kieran Moore has repeatedly used aggressive and frightening language when referring to those who've chosen not to receive a C19 vaccine.
• Canada election: Trudeau slams protesters, says they’re putting others at risk | Global News
• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses freedom convoy protests in Ottawa | COVID-19 in Canada | YouTube

0:37:36 - Second Step - Soft Exclusion

• Canada election: Trudeau slams protesters, says they’re putting others at risk | Watch News Videos Online
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