What a beautiful example of propaganda, in the truest sense of the term.
The guitar intro is folksy, the guy is warm and lovely, and _excited_ to
have us at this training.... it's about your "success".
Success of course, is not getting fired for being a collaborator with
counter-revolutionary "associates" who reject Generalissimo Uberführer
Bezos inspired vision and "history making" five year masterplan for
"direct working relationships".
I can honestly imagine this in a museum of the 21st Century one day,
like how you can go to the British Museum and watch 1938 films of
"doctors" measuring Jew's heads for criminal degeneracy.
"Godwin himself has also criticized the overapplication of the law, claiming that it does not articulate a fallacy, but rather is intended to reduce the frequency of inappropriate and hyperbolic comparisons. "
I don't think the original comparison was inapt -- the video is hard evidence of appalling and disgusting propaganda. It will not be viewed kindly by history.
A comparison doesn’t mean a literal equivalence. It means a similarity. In this case there is a similarity with regards to the propaganda. They’re not equivalent but there are definitely not unlike each other either.
I think the gp is kind to even call this "hyperbolic". There is no comparison between Amazon and a concentration camp, just because people are worked hard at amazon.
The reason Auschwitz was bad was not because people worked hard there. It was because people were enslaved and murdered there.
It would be like comparing a camp site to a concentration camp, because both are "camps". The comparison yields no useful insights.
But the point of the comparison is not to make Amazon/Bezos out to be Nazis; it's to point out that this practice might in the future be looked upon as an artefact of the times that hopefully no longer happen in the museum visitor's time.
Years 2020 and 2021 are rich for topic about propaganda. I never understood why there was something like holocaust in history. After covid, I understand how fear, media and oppression shape behavior.
What bothers me more is question, if we can ever learn from history.
I think human nature has a floor and ceiling. Capacity for good and bad that everyone shares. And I think people underestimate (or overestimate?) the floor of human nature. They think its higher than it is. And that everyone shares it.
Thats not to say human nature is bad. Its a spectrum.
The guitar intro is folksy, the guy is warm and lovely, and _excited_ to have us at this training.... it's about your "success".
Success of course, is not getting fired for being a collaborator with counter-revolutionary "associates" who reject Generalissimo Uberführer Bezos inspired vision and "history making" five year masterplan for "direct working relationships".
I can honestly imagine this in a museum of the 21st Century one day, like how you can go to the British Museum and watch 1938 films of "doctors" measuring Jew's heads for criminal degeneracy.