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#OTD #HannahArendt was born in 1906. Recommended reading: any of her works but more especially now Vol. 3 of #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism.
One fascination is that she was born the same year as my grandmother & great aunt but had a very different life.

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“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951

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#TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism Year 1951

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USA, you have been behaving this way since March 2013. #SinceMarch2013 #DearUSA

American revelations haiku

One third of us would
Kill another third while the
Rest of us watch on

Inspired by a quote from Harlan Coben

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Radical Evil Understanding automated warfare and campaigns of dehumanisation through the writings of Hannah Arendt (Part I)

Here's my take on connecting the dots between the current events on the middle east and Arendt's prophetic observations.
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Hanna Arendt described clearly what we are currently witnessing with Trump 2.0. And yet, we've failed to protect ourselves from repetitions #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism

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It was this chain reaction, inherent in imperialist power politics...of which Kipling said (in Kim), “When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before."
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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

“Om te kunnen gedijen, moet de totalitaire propaganda ontsnappen uit de werkelijkheid en haar toevlucht nemen tot fictie, het toeval vervangen door consistentie.” Hannah Arendt over hoe totalitaire staten kunnen onstaan. #TheOriginsofTotalitarianism #hannaharendt

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore [.....]

With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt in 1933

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1958 Then Kennedy and MLK, but they were shot (by #RWNJ), then we had Nixon, RayGun, The Bushies and now #TraitorTrump

This will then be followed by an eternity of silence
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Just wanna remind everyone that The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt is still in print and maybe a perfectly relevant subject for your own personal reading challenge. #arendt #theoriginsoftotalitarianism #curefascismreadphilosophy #yesyhisiscomingfromasmutryfanfictionwritersueme

Book cover of The Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."

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…regarding success and failure under totalitarian circumstances…In a totally fictitious world, failures need not be recorded, admitted, and remembered.

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…where the common good was identified with the sum total of individual interests….the owning and dominant classes had convinced everybody that economic interest and the passion for ownership are a sound basis for the body politic….

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The masses' escape from reality…in which they are forced to live and…cannot exist, since coincidence has become its supreme master and human beings need the constant transformation of chaotic…conditions into a man-made pattern of relative consistency.

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The foundation legend, as Kipling tells it…”You'll win the world…without anyone caring how you did it: you'll keep the world without anyone knowing how you did it: and you'll carry the world on your backs without anyone seeing how you did it….”

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Throughout the eighteenth century, American slave-holders themselves considered it a temporary institution and wanted to abolish it gradually. Most of them probably would have said with Jefferson: "I tremble when I think that God is just."

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"Expansion is everything," said Cecil Rhodes, and fell into despair, for every night he saw overhead "these stars ... these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could."

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Equality of condition…is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of modern mankind. The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people….

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