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Die Sehnsucht des Wählers nach dem #Untergang
Mit #Adorno, Hannah #Arendt und #WolfgangPohrt den #Autoritarismus der #Deutschen #verstehen:
Warum #AfD-Wähler keine politischen #Lösungen, sondern die #Zerstörung des #Systems #anstreben – selbst um den Preis des eigenen #Ruins.
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42236/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #anonymity #concentrationcamp #death #dehumanization #existence #identity #life #meaningoflife #nonexistence
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42236/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #anonymity #concentrationcamp #death #dehumanization #existence #identity #life #meaningoflife #nonexistence
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42236/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #anonymity #concentrationcamp #death #dehumanization #existence #identity #life #meaningoflife #nonexistence
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The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42236/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #anonymity #concentrationcamp #death #dehumanization #existence #identity #life #meaningoflife #nonexistence
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Hannah Arrendt was nazi-fucking hack. There, I said it.
"In #HannahArendt: A Life of the Mind, #ThomasMeyer (a professor of #philosophy at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of #Munich and #editor of a 12-volume edition of #Arendt’s #German #writings) asserts that her life and work is best understood as an attempt to move beyond the limits of an allegedly timeless philosophy - and philosophy’s preoccupation with itself - by embracing #politics, “which, in the final analysis, is the human sphere,” and the movement from thought to action and only then, back to thought.
#Meyer is acutely aware of the limitations of Arendt’s published work. She was frequently categorical, he emphasizes, and “not always consistent.” Her arguments were not always supported by footnotes or references to secondary sources. Instead of weighing all sides of an issue, she “required her readers to make a stark choice of pro or con.”
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Hannah Arrendt was nazi-fucking hack. There, I said it.
"In #HannahArendt: A Life of the Mind, #ThomasMeyer (a professor of #philosophy at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of #Munich and #editor of a 12-volume edition of #Arendt’s #German #writings) asserts that her life and work is best understood as an attempt to move beyond the limits of an allegedly timeless philosophy - and philosophy’s preoccupation with itself - by embracing #politics, “which, in the final analysis, is the human sphere,” and the movement from thought to action and only then, back to thought.
#Meyer is acutely aware of the limitations of Arendt’s published work. She was frequently categorical, he emphasizes, and “not always consistent.” Her arguments were not always supported by footnotes or references to secondary sources. Instead of weighing all sides of an issue, she “required her readers to make a stark choice of pro or con.”
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Hannah Arrendt was nazi-fucking hack. There, I said it.
"In #HannahArendt: A Life of the Mind, #ThomasMeyer (a professor of #philosophy at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of #Munich and #editor of a 12-volume edition of #Arendt’s #German #writings) asserts that her life and work is best understood as an attempt to move beyond the limits of an allegedly timeless philosophy - and philosophy’s preoccupation with itself - by embracing #politics, “which, in the final analysis, is the human sphere,” and the movement from thought to action and only then, back to thought.
#Meyer is acutely aware of the limitations of Arendt’s published work. She was frequently categorical, he emphasizes, and “not always consistent.” Her arguments were not always supported by footnotes or references to secondary sources. Instead of weighing all sides of an issue, she “required her readers to make a stark choice of pro or con.”
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Hannah Arrendt was nazi-fucking hack. There, I said it.
"In #HannahArendt: A Life of the Mind, #ThomasMeyer (a professor of #philosophy at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of #Munich and #editor of a 12-volume edition of #Arendt’s #German #writings) asserts that her life and work is best understood as an attempt to move beyond the limits of an allegedly timeless philosophy - and philosophy’s preoccupation with itself - by embracing #politics, “which, in the final analysis, is the human sphere,” and the movement from thought to action and only then, back to thought.
#Meyer is acutely aware of the limitations of Arendt’s published work. She was frequently categorical, he emphasizes, and “not always consistent.” Her arguments were not always supported by footnotes or references to secondary sources. Instead of weighing all sides of an issue, she “required her readers to make a stark choice of pro or con.”
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Hannah Arrendt was nazi-fucking hack. There, I said it.
"In #HannahArendt: A Life of the Mind, #ThomasMeyer (a professor of #philosophy at #LudwigMaximilianUniversity of #Munich and #editor of a 12-volume edition of #Arendt’s #German #writings) asserts that her life and work is best understood as an attempt to move beyond the limits of an allegedly timeless philosophy - and philosophy’s preoccupation with itself - by embracing #politics, “which, in the final analysis, is the human sphere,” and the movement from thought to action and only then, back to thought.
#Meyer is acutely aware of the limitations of Arendt’s published work. She was frequently categorical, he emphasizes, and “not always consistent.” Her arguments were not always supported by footnotes or references to secondary sources. Instead of weighing all sides of an issue, she “required her readers to make a stark choice of pro or con.”
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"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs
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"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs
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"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs
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"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs
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"Quand tout le monde ment sur tout ce qui est important, le diseur de vérité, qu'il le sache ou non, a commencé à agir ; lui aussi s'est engagé dans les affaires politiques ; car, dans le cas peu probable où il survivrait, il a fait un pas pour changer le monde."
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#vérité #réalité #postFactuel #Arendt #citation #citations #exegèse #totalitarisme #éthique #intégrité #valeurs
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs
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"Where everybody lies about everything of importance, the truthteller, whether he knows it or not, has begun to act; he, too, has engaged himself in political business, for, in the unlikely event that he survives, he has made a start toward changing the world.”
Hannah Arendt, in "Truth and Politics"
#truth #Arendt #quotes #postFactual #reality #totalitarianism #HannahArendt #agnotology #MAHA #fragility #beliefs
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The chief difference between the despotic and the totalitarian secret police lies in the difference between the “suspect” and the “objective enemy.” The latter is defined by the policy of the government and not by his own desire to overthrow it. He is never an individual whose dangerous thoughts must be provoked or whose past justifies suspicion, but a “carrier of tendences” like the carrier of a disease. Practically speaking, the totalitarian ruler proceeds like a man who persistently insults another man until everybody knows that the latter is his enemy, so that he can, with some plausibility, go and kill him in self-defense.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/54483/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #aggression #demonization #despotism #enemy #enemyofthestate #insult #ruler #scapegoat #secretpolice #selfdefense #totalitarian
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The chief difference between the despotic and the totalitarian secret police lies in the difference between the “suspect” and the “objective enemy.” The latter is defined by the policy of the government and not by his own desire to overthrow it. He is never an individual whose dangerous thoughts must be provoked or whose past justifies suspicion, but a “carrier of tendences” like the carrier of a disease. Practically speaking, the totalitarian ruler proceeds like a man who persistently insults another man until everybody knows that the latter is his enemy, so that he can, with some plausibility, go and kill him in self-defense.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/54483/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #aggression #demonization #despotism #enemy #enemyofthestate #insult #ruler #scapegoat #secretpolice #selfdefense #totalitarian
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The chief difference between the despotic and the totalitarian secret police lies in the difference between the “suspect” and the “objective enemy.” The latter is defined by the policy of the government and not by his own desire to overthrow it. He is never an individual whose dangerous thoughts must be provoked or whose past justifies suspicion, but a “carrier of tendences” like the carrier of a disease. Practically speaking, the totalitarian ruler proceeds like a man who persistently insults another man until everybody knows that the latter is his enemy, so that he can, with some plausibility, go and kill him in self-defense.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/54483/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #aggression #demonization #despotism #enemy #enemyofthestate #insult #ruler #scapegoat #secretpolice #selfdefense #totalitarian
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
The chief difference between the despotic and the totalitarian secret police lies in the difference between the “suspect” and the “objective enemy.” The latter is defined by the policy of the government and not by his own desire to overthrow it. He is never an individual whose dangerous thoughts must be provoked or whose past justifies suspicion, but a “carrier of tendences” like the carrier of a disease. Practically speaking, the totalitarian ruler proceeds like a man who persistently insults another man until everybody knows that the latter is his enemy, so that he can, with some plausibility, go and kill him in self-defense.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/54483/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #aggression #demonization #despotism #enemy #enemyofthestate #insult #ruler #scapegoat #secretpolice #selfdefense #totalitarian
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L’atomisation fabrique l’irresponsabilité
Dans une société atomisée, la politique devient spectacle et chacun s’imagine simple spectateur. La responsabilité collective se dissout dans l’illusion que quelqu’un d’autre agira à notre place. #politics #Arendt #Elias #démocratie La mystification politique moderne repose en partie sur une promesse simple : le peuple serait souverain, mais sans avoir à exercer concrètement cette souveraineté. On vote, on commente, on…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/latomisation-fabrique-lirresponsabilite/
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L’atomisation fabrique l’irresponsabilité
Dans une société atomisée, la politique devient spectacle et chacun s’imagine simple spectateur. La responsabilité collective se dissout dans l’illusion que quelqu’un d’autre agira à notre place. #politics #Arendt #Elias #démocratie La mystification politique moderne repose en partie sur une promesse simple : le peuple serait souverain, mais sans avoir à exercer concrètement cette souveraineté. On vote, on commente, on…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/latomisation-fabrique-lirresponsabilite/
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L’atomisation fabrique l’irresponsabilité
Dans une société atomisée, la politique devient spectacle et chacun s’imagine simple spectateur. La responsabilité collective se dissout dans l’illusion que quelqu’un d’autre agira à notre place. #politics #Arendt #Elias #démocratie La mystification politique moderne repose en partie sur une promesse simple : le peuple serait souverain, mais sans avoir à exercer concrètement cette souveraineté. On vote, on commente, on…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/latomisation-fabrique-lirresponsabilite/
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L’atomisation fabrique l’irresponsabilité
Dans une société atomisée, la politique devient spectacle et chacun s’imagine simple spectateur. La responsabilité collective se dissout dans l’illusion que quelqu’un d’autre agira à notre place. #politics #Arendt #Elias #démocratie La mystification politique moderne repose en partie sur une promesse simple : le peuple serait souverain, mais sans avoir à exercer concrètement cette souveraineté. On vote, on commente, on…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/latomisation-fabrique-lirresponsabilite/
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L’atomisation fabrique l’irresponsabilité
Dans une société atomisée, la politique devient spectacle et chacun s’imagine simple spectateur. La responsabilité collective se dissout dans l’illusion que quelqu’un d’autre agira à notre place. #politics #Arendt #Elias #démocratie La mystification politique moderne repose en partie sur une promesse simple : le peuple serait souverain, mais sans avoir à exercer concrètement cette souveraineté. On vote, on commente, on…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/latomisation-fabrique-lirresponsabilite/
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42155/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #obscurity #power #secrecy #restraint
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42155/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #obscurity #power #secrecy #restraint
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42155/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #obscurity #power #secrecy #restraint
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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42155/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #obscurity #power #secrecy #restraint
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt (1906 AD to 1975 AD)
Arendt fled Nazi Germany and later lived in the US. Her seminal work focused on the nature of totalitarianism, systemic power, and the vital importance of the public sphere.
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism (compiled via Google Gemini)
#GreatThinkers #philosophy #arendt #politics #freedom #history #democracy
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt (1906 AD to 1975 AD)
Arendt fled Nazi Germany and later lived in the US. Her seminal work focused on the nature of totalitarianism, systemic power, and the vital importance of the public sphere.
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism (compiled via Google Gemini)
#GreatThinkers #philosophy #arendt #politics #freedom #history #democracy
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt (1906 AD to 1975 AD)
Arendt fled Nazi Germany and later lived in the US. Her seminal work focused on the nature of totalitarianism, systemic power, and the vital importance of the public sphere.
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism (compiled via Google Gemini)
#GreatThinkers #philosophy #arendt #politics #freedom #history #democracy
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt (1906 AD to 1975 AD)
Arendt fled Nazi Germany and later lived in the US. Her seminal work focused on the nature of totalitarianism, systemic power, and the vital importance of the public sphere.
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism (compiled via Google Gemini)
#GreatThinkers #philosophy #arendt #politics #freedom #history #democracy
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt (1906 AD to 1975 AD)
Arendt fled Nazi Germany and later lived in the US. Her seminal work focused on the nature of totalitarianism, systemic power, and the vital importance of the public sphere.
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism (compiled via Google Gemini)
#GreatThinkers #philosophy #arendt #politics #freedom #history #democracy
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. 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 is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. 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 is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. 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 is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. 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 is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. 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 is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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Just finished Hannah Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. This was a phenomenal book. I wonder her writing process was. The writing was amazing and each sentence had significant weight. I wish her book was more well-known to the general public. #Arendt #PoliticalScience
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Just finished Hannah Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. This was a phenomenal book. I wonder what her writing process was. The writing was amazing and each sentence had significant weight. I wish her book was more well-known to the general public. #Arendt #PoliticalScience
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Just finished Hannah Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. This was a phenomenal book. I wonder what her writing process was. The writing was amazing and each sentence had significant weight. I wish her book was more well-known to the general public. #Arendt #PoliticalScience
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Just finished Hannah Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. This was a phenomenal book. I wonder what her writing process was. The writing was amazing and each sentence had significant weight. I wish her book was more well-known to the general public. #Arendt #PoliticalScience
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Just finished Hannah Arendt's book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. This was a phenomenal book. I wonder her writing process was. The writing was amazing and each sentence had significant weight. I wish her book was more well-known to the general public. #Arendt #PoliticalScience
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
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 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 the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41783/
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
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 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 the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41783/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #absurdity #belief #cognitivedissonance #cynicism #deceit #deception #lying #mistrust #propaganda #totalitarianism
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
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 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 the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41783/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #absurdity #belief #cognitivedissonance #cynicism #deceit #deception #lying #mistrust #propaganda #totalitarianism
