Nils: another excellent and timely piece. The terms Gleichschaltung and Selbst-Gleichschaltung, “leaning in to political orthodoxy”, are powerfully relevant. You might enjoy my note on the subject in regard to Xi Jinping’s reintroduction of ideological and academic conformity in the PRC:
This parallels the German Nazification that resulted in the intellectual diaspora of Jewish scientists to Western Europe and the United States - a diaspora that brought enormous benefits to those societies.
(It also cursed them with Critical Theory - but lets just overlook that for now)
Nils: another excellent and timely piece. The terms Gleichschaltung and Selbst-Gleichschaltung, “leaning in to political orthodoxy”, are powerfully relevant. You might enjoy my note on the subject in regard to Xi Jinping’s reintroduction of ideological and academic conformity in the PRC:
https://chinaheritage.net/journal/the-threnody-of-tedium/
This parallels the German Nazification that resulted in the intellectual diaspora of Jewish scientists to Western Europe and the United States - a diaspora that brought enormous benefits to those societies.
(It also cursed them with Critical Theory - but lets just overlook that for now)