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<blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 162296" data-attributes="member: 2486"><p>The incredible thing about Hitler is that he convinced rational people to commit totally irrational and evil acts.</p><p></p><p>If you analyse a Hitler speech closely, what he is saying is usually factually inaccurate, unsubstantiated sophistry or thoroughly illogical- and of course unspeakably evil. Yet to those listening to him, these speeches were magnetic: they hang on his every word, and cheered his racist meanderings wholeheartedly.</p><p></p><p>Charisma is the ability to make people believe you when you're wrong. This is what Hitler had.</p><p></p><p>As for the other examples, none of them possessed this sort of charisma, with the possible exception of Churchill, and even he did not really possess the same persuasive powers. Most of the others were talking to an already supportive group of backers. Hitler convinced even his enemies. And finally, an historian's nitpick: Napoleon was not very charismatic at all. His coup in 1799 was nearly laughed out by the Council of Ancients because of the poor delivery of his speech: he was a general, not an orator. His legendary charisma was generated by a myth propagated by Stendhal, Chauteaubriand, Beranger, Hugo, Las Cases and other 19th century French writers, poets and artists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Al, post: 162296, member: 2486"] The incredible thing about Hitler is that he convinced rational people to commit totally irrational and evil acts. If you analyse a Hitler speech closely, what he is saying is usually factually inaccurate, unsubstantiated sophistry or thoroughly illogical- and of course unspeakably evil. Yet to those listening to him, these speeches were magnetic: they hang on his every word, and cheered his racist meanderings wholeheartedly. Charisma is the ability to make people believe you when you're wrong. This is what Hitler had. As for the other examples, none of them possessed this sort of charisma, with the possible exception of Churchill, and even he did not really possess the same persuasive powers. Most of the others were talking to an already supportive group of backers. Hitler convinced even his enemies. And finally, an historian's nitpick: Napoleon was not very charismatic at all. His coup in 1799 was nearly laughed out by the Council of Ancients because of the poor delivery of his speech: he was a general, not an orator. His legendary charisma was generated by a myth propagated by Stendhal, Chauteaubriand, Beranger, Hugo, Las Cases and other 19th century French writers, poets and artists. [/QUOTE]
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