Section C: Design as Propaganda

Exploration of how fonts, forms and architecture normalize bureaucracy and hide violence, from Nazi forms to Soviet design.

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Air Date 12/22/2025

It's said that mockery is one of the most effective weapons against dictators. I guess it depends on your goal, but still, there's truth there. And the good thing in that regard is that they are so very mockable. No really nice, likable, non-clownish people make themselves dictators and so the people who do are, without exception, absolutely ridiculous lunatics who deserve all the mockery and disdain in the world.

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