| − | '''Gleichschaltung''' (meaning ''"coordination"'', ''"making the same"'', ''"bringing into line"'')<ref>{{cite web |title=www.princeton.edu |publisher=https://www.princeton.edu |url=https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Gleichschaltung.html |accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref> was the [[Nazi]] policy enforcing [[politically correct|political conformity]] in all sectors of society, from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education.<ref>{{cite web |title='Only a Phase': How Diplomats Misjudged Hitler's Rise |author=Christoph Strupp |publisher=Spiegel Online International |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/marking-eighty-years-since-hitler-took-power-in-germany-a-880565.html |accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref> It is an example from the early days of the Nazi [[dictatorship]] of developing its own twisted and distorted language{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Together with new methods and a new morality they have introduced also a '''new vocabulary''' into Europe."'' Duff Cooper, [[House of Commons]], October 3, 1938 (After [[Munich Agreement]]); See Also [[Disturbed character|Examples: Politics: Peace for our time vs. The first foretaste of a bitter cup]]|group=note}} used to [[psychological manipulation|manipulate]] and confuse citizens of a [[totalitarian]] state so that they no longer can distinguish [[truth]] from [[falsehood]]. Consequently, they are reduced to such a state of confusion{{#tag:ref|cf. "The well-known English author, [[Somerset Maugham]], wrote an important book entitled: ''Of Human Bondage''. How easily men let themselves live in a state of subjection. You older people can remember how you submitted to [[Hitler]]. 'I believed that two mulitplied by two made twenty,' many have since admitted. 'I believed it because the [[Führer]] had said so!'"<ref name="Busch">{{cite book |title=Jesus our destiny |author=Wilhelm Busch |year=2001 |publisher=Brunen Publishing |place=Basel, Switzerland |page=34|isbn=0-86347-024-6 |url= }}</ref> |group=note}} and impotence that the dictatorial government can control their hearts and minds. [[George Orwell]]’s famous books [[1984]] and [[Animal Farm]] are the classic fictional and symbolic statements addressing this aspect of totalitarianism. The Ministry of Propaganda established by [[Joseph Goebbels]] is used as model for the Ministry of Truth in the 1984 book.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nazi Gleichschaltung |author=Edgar Feuchtwanger |publisher=The new perspective journal |volume=7 |number= 2 |url=http://www.history-ontheweb.co.uk/concepts/concept72_gleichschaltung.htm |accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref> Orwell reasoned that if a government could control all media and interpersonal communication while simultaneously forcing citizens to speak in politically controlled jargon, it could blunt independent thinking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/23/how-the-trans-agenda-seeks-to-redefine-everyone/ |author=Stella Morabito |title=How The Trans-Agenda Seeks To Redefine Everyone |date=24 June 2014 |accessdate=16 April 2016}}</ref> One of the key figures in the process of Gleichschaltung that established the Nazi dictatorship was [[Hermann Göring]], who in 1933 banned all Roman Catholic newspapers in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hermann Göring, "The Iron Knight" |publisher=www.HolocaustResearchProject.org |url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/goering.html |accessdate=5 June 2015 |quote=Georing had joined the Reichstag in 1928, and subsequently became the parliament's president from 1932 to 1933, he was one of the key figures in the process of Gleichschaltung that established the Nazi dictatorship. For example, in 1933 he banned all [[Roman Catholic]] newspapers in Germany, despite the support the Centre Party had given to Hitler's chancellorship.}}</ref> When gleichschaltung is applied into the realms of [[science]], it transforms science into [[scientism]]. The twisted scientific methods and self-serving research are then used to support particular political agenda of the party or pressure group having special interests. | + | '''Gleichschaltung''' (meaning ''"coordination"'', ''"making the same"'', ''"bringing into line"'')<ref>{{cite web |title=www.princeton.edu |publisher=https://www.princeton.edu |url=https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Gleichschaltung.html |accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref> was the [[Nazi]] policy enforcing [[politically correct|political conformity]] in all sectors of society, from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education.<ref>{{cite web |title='Only a Phase': How Diplomats Misjudged Hitler's Rise |author=Christoph Strupp |publisher=Spiegel Online International |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/marking-eighty-years-since-hitler-took-power-in-germany-a-880565.html |accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref> It is an example from the early days of the Nazi [[dictatorship]] of developing its own twisted and distorted language{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Together with new methods and a new morality they have introduced also a '''new vocabulary''' into Europe."'' Duff Cooper, [[House of Commons]], October 3, 1938 (After [[Munich Agreement]]); See Also [[Disturbed character|Examples: Politics: Peace for our time vs. The first foretaste of a bitter cup]]|group=note}} used to [[psychological manipulation|manipulate]] and confuse citizens of a [[totalitarian]] state so that they no longer can distinguish [[truth]] from [[falsehood]]. Consequently, they are reduced to such a state of confusion{{#tag:ref|cf. "The well-known English author, [[Somerset Maugham]], wrote an important book entitled: ''Of Human Bondage''. How easily men let themselves live in a state of subjection. You older people can remember how you submitted to [[Hitler]]. 'I believed that two mulitplied by two made twenty,' many have since admitted. 'I believed it because the [[Führer]] had said so!'"<ref name="Busch">{{cite book |title=Jesus our destiny |author=Wilhelm Busch |year=2001 |publisher=Brunen Publishing |place=Basel, Switzerland |page=34|isbn=0-86347-024-6 |url= }}</ref> |group=note}} and impotence that the dictatorial government can control their hearts and minds. [[George Orwell]]’s famous books [[1984]] and [[Animal Farm]] are the classic fictional and symbolic statements addressing this aspect of totalitarianism. The Ministry of Propaganda established by [[Joseph Goebbels]] is used as model for the Ministry of Truth in the 1984 book.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nazi Gleichschaltung |author=Edgar Feuchtwanger |publisher=The new perspective journal |volume=7 |number= 2 |url=http://www.history-ontheweb.co.uk/concepts/concept72_gleichschaltung.htm |accessdate=December 6, 2014}}</ref> Orwell reasoned that if a government could control all media and interpersonal communication while simultaneously forcing citizens to speak in politically controlled jargon, it could blunt independent thinking.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/06/23/how-the-trans-agenda-seeks-to-redefine-everyone/ |author=Stella Morabito |title=How The Trans-Agenda Seeks To Redefine Everyone |date=24 June 2014 |accessdate=16 April 2016}}</ref> One of the key figures in the process of Gleichschaltung that established the Nazi dictatorship was [[Hermann Göring]], who in 1933 banned all Roman Catholic newspapers in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hermann Göring, "The Iron Knight" |publisher=www.HolocaustResearchProject.org |url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/goering.html |accessdate=5 June 2015 |quote=Georing had joined the Reichstag in 1928, and subsequently became the parliament's president from 1932 to 1933, he was one of the key figures in the process of Gleichschaltung that established the Nazi dictatorship. For example, in 1933 he banned all [[Roman Catholic]] newspapers in Germany, despite the support the Centre Party had given to Hitler's chancellorship.}}</ref> When gleichschaltung is applied into the realms of [[science]], it transforms science into [[scientism]]. The twisted scientific methods and self-serving research are then used to support particular political agenda of the party or [[pressure group]] having special interests. |