Kyrsten, thank you for reading and I am glad to hear that we are on the same page. Great choice of books; they are on my list as well. Just for the book loving joy here it is: The Battle for the Mind, William Sargant; The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Wilhelm Reich; The Captive Mind, Czeslaw Milosz; Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti; The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt; The Guru Papers Masks of Authoritarian Power, Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad; Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev; Propaganda, Jacques Ellul; A clockwork Orange, Burgess; The Devils of Loudun, Aldous Huxley; Unbearable Lighting of Being, Kundera (and his other novels); Tyrants Destroyed, Nabokov. Some books I know by heart, some have not read yet… But will be gradually working through them all again. Barthes said that fascism does not only silence people; it makes some speak. Here is to literature.