It’s better in color

Or worse in some cases.  We’re all used to seeing pictures of Hitler and the Nazi rallies at Nuremberg in all their glorious black and white.  But when you look at these color photos courtesy of LIFE magazine, you realize these really were people, just like we see on the widescreen today, whipped into a frenzy by a complete coming together of all the institutions of information that the country could muster.  I’ve often said that nuclear weapons were not the most dangerous weapons of the last century.  Nor were biological or chemical weapons the most dangerous.  That designation goes, IMHO, to mass media.  For in our age, in order to get common sense people ready to use some horrible weapon, or perpetrate some other terrifying deed, or promote an unthinkable evil (*cough* abortion), you need everything in an advanced society to come together to promote it, using all the information technology available.

As seen on TV.