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  1. "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

  2. "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

  3. "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

  4. "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

  5. "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

  6. "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"

  7. 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/

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  8. 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…

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  9. 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…

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  10. A quotation from Arendt

    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

  11. "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

  12. "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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10240/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #coercion #control #domination #internalization #terror #terrorism #totalitarianism #violence

  20. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10240/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #coercion #control #domination #internalization #terror #terrorism #totalitarianism #violence

  21. Opinion | Trump Has Done More Than Misjudge Iran

    “We live in a world,” Miller told Tapper, “that is governed by strength, that is governed by force,…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #Arendt #breakingnews #DonaldJ #hannah #Iran #Miller #Stephen(1985-) #Thucydides(460-395BC) #Trump #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #XiJinping
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  22. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

  23. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

  24. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

  25. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

  26. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    The disturbing factor in the success of totalitarianism is rather the true selflessness of its adherents: it may be understandable that a Nazi or Bolshevik will not be shaken in his conviction by crimes against people who do not belong to the movement or are even hostile to it; but the amazing fact is that neither is he likely to waver when the monster begins to devour its own children, and not even if he becomes a victim of persecution himself, if he is framed and condemned, if he is purged from the party and sent to a forced-labor or concentration camp. On the contrary, to the wonder of the whole civilized world, he may even be willing to help in his own prosecution and frame his own death sentence if only his status as a member of the movement is not touched.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/42025/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #belonging #fanatic #fanaticism #identity #loyalty #movement #partisan #selfdestruction #selfpreservation #selflessness #totalitarianism #tribalism #zealotry

  27. L’espace public colonisé : quand le privé explose dans la cité

    L'espace public n'est pas vide, il est saturé. La menace n'est pas l'absence de politique, mais l'invasion de la cité par l'exposition permanente des sphères privées. Nous ne sommes plus des citoyens, nous sommes des foyers privés exposés. #Arendt #EspacePublic #Sociologie La cité en mode "exhibition" L’idée que l’espace public aurait disparu sous les coups de boutoir de la modernité est une erreur…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  28. L’espace public colonisé : quand le privé explose dans la cité

    L'espace public n'est pas vide, il est saturé. La menace n'est pas l'absence de politique, mais l'invasion de la cité par l'exposition permanente des sphères privées. Nous ne sommes plus des citoyens, nous sommes des foyers privés exposés. #Arendt #EspacePublic #Sociologie La cité en mode "exhibition" L’idée que l’espace public aurait disparu sous les coups de boutoir de la modernité est une erreur…

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  29. Guattari : Eichmann, l’usine et la mort de la pensée

    #Guattari croise #Arendt (#Eichmann banal) et #Nietzsche (dressage industriel) : la #SubjectivationMachinique. L’homme-machine du capital n’est pas sadique – il est fonctionnaire de l’#Industrialisation. Antidote : subjectivités singulières contre rouages. #PhiloPolitique Arendt + Nietzsche = Guattari Hannah Arendt (Eichmann à Jérusalem) théorise la "banalité du mal" : Adolf Eichmann, organisateur des déportations,…

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  30. Guattari : Eichmann, l’usine et la mort de la pensée

    #Guattari croise #Arendt (#Eichmann banal) et #Nietzsche (dressage industriel) : la #SubjectivationMachinique. L’homme-machine du capital n’est pas sadique – il est fonctionnaire de l’#Industrialisation. Antidote : subjectivités singulières contre rouages. #PhiloPolitique Arendt + Nietzsche = Guattari Hannah Arendt (Eichmann à Jérusalem) théorise la "banalité du mal" : Adolf Eichmann, organisateur des déportations,…

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  31. wiewohl nur die totalitären Gewalthaber das Lügen bewußt als den Beginn des Mordens zu handhaben wissen.«. 2/2 Hannah #Arendt

  32. »Denn vom Standpunkt dessen, der eine Wahrheit mitzuteilen hat, ist die Neigung, Tatsachen in Meinungen aufzulösen, bzw. den Unterschied zwischen beiden zu verwischen, nicht weniger verblüffend und schockierend als die Resistenz der Menschen gegen Wahrheit überhaupt …« Hannah #Arendt

  33. und lieber ins Gefängnis gehen würden als zusehen, wie ihre Rechte und Freiheiten immer weiter beschnitten werden - diese Versuche reichen nicht aus und werden wahrscheinlich auch in absehbarer Zukunft nicht ausreichen, um die Republik zu zerstören.« 2/2 Hannah #Arendt

  34. Eine andere Frage ist es, ob der Erste Zusatzartikel zur Verfassung ausreichen wird, um diese wesentlichste politische Freiheit zu schätzen: das Recht auf nicht manipulierte Tatsacheninformation, ohne welche die ganze Meinungsfreiheit zu einem entsetzlichen Schwindel wird.« 2/2 Hannah #Arendt

  35. ›Entwirklichung‹ und Problemlöserei waren erwünscht, weil Mißachtung der Wirklichkeit dieser Politik und ihren Zielen inhärent war.« 2/2 Hannah #Arendt

  36. »Im Bereich der Politik, wo Geheimhaltung und bewußte Täuschung stets eine große Rolle gespielt haben, ist Selbstbetrug die Gefahr par excellence; dere Mann, der auf seine eigenen Lügen hereinfällt, verliert jeden Kontakt nicht nur mit seinem Publikum, sondern zur wirklichen Welt …« Hannah #Arendt

  37. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 1, ch. 1 “Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense” (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46497/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #excuse #explanation #historiography #history #ideology #justification #responsibility #theory #bias

  38. A quotation from Hannah Arendt

    Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

    Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
    The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 1, ch. 1 “Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense” (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/46497/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #excuse #explanation #historiography #history #ideology #justification #responsibility #theory #bias

  39. "S'il est vrai que les masses sont obsédées par le désir d'échapper à la réalité parce que, dans leur déracinement essentiel, elles ne peuvent plus en supporter les aspects accidentels et incompréhensibles, il est également vrai que leur soif de fiction a un certain rapport avec ces qualités de l'esprit humain dont la cohérence structurelle domine le simple hasard. La fuite des masses devant la réalité est une condamnation du monde dans lequel elles sont contraintes de vivre et ne peuvent subsister, puisque la coïncidence en est devenue la loi suprême et que les êtres humains ont besoin de transformer constamment les conditions chaotiques et accidentelles en un schéma humain d'une relative cohérence."
    ~ Hannah Arendt, in « Le Totalitarisme », p.108

    #Arendt #citation #exegèse #vérité #agnotologie #postFactuel #complotisme #réalité #Russie #Poutine #suprémacisme #Netanyahou #nazisme #Allemagne #totalitarisme #médias #infox

  40. "S'il est vrai que les masses sont obsédées par le désir d'échapper à la réalité parce que, dans leur déracinement essentiel, elles ne peuvent plus en supporter les aspects accidentels et incompréhensibles, il est également vrai que leur soif de fiction a un certain rapport avec ces qualités de l'esprit humain dont la cohérence structurelle domine le simple hasard. La fuite des masses devant la réalité est une condamnation du monde dans lequel elles sont contraintes de vivre et ne peuvent subsister, puisque la coïncidence en est devenue la loi suprême et que les êtres humains ont besoin de transformer constamment les conditions chaotiques et accidentelles en un schéma humain d'une relative cohérence."
    ~ Hannah Arendt, in « Le Totalitarisme », p.108

    #Arendt #citation #exegèse #vérité #agnotologie #postFactuel #complotisme #réalité #Russie #Poutine #suprémacisme #Netanyahou #nazisme #Allemagne #totalitarisme #médias #infox

  41. "S'il est vrai que les masses sont obsédées par le désir d'échapper à la réalité parce que, dans leur déracinement essentiel, elles ne peuvent plus en supporter les aspects accidentels et incompréhensibles, il est également vrai que leur soif de fiction a un certain rapport avec ces qualités de l'esprit humain dont la cohérence structurelle domine le simple hasard. La fuite des masses devant la réalité est une condamnation du monde dans lequel elles sont contraintes de vivre et ne peuvent subsister, puisque la coïncidence en est devenue la loi suprême et que les êtres humains ont besoin de transformer constamment les conditions chaotiques et accidentelles en un schéma humain d'une relative cohérence."
    ~ Hannah Arendt, in « Le Totalitarisme », p.108

    #Arendt #citation #exegèse #vérité #agnotologie #postFactuel #complotisme #réalité #Russie #Poutine #suprémacisme #Netanyahou #nazisme #Allemagne #totalitarisme #médias #infox

  42. "S'il est vrai que les masses sont obsédées par le désir d'échapper à la réalité parce que, dans leur déracinement essentiel, elles ne peuvent plus en supporter les aspects accidentels et incompréhensibles, il est également vrai que leur soif de fiction a un certain rapport avec ces qualités de l'esprit humain dont la cohérence structurelle domine le simple hasard. La fuite des masses devant la réalité est une condamnation du monde dans lequel elles sont contraintes de vivre et ne peuvent subsister, puisque la coïncidence en est devenue la loi suprême et que les êtres humains ont besoin de transformer constamment les conditions chaotiques et accidentelles en un schéma humain d'une relative cohérence."
    ~ Hannah Arendt, in « Le Totalitarisme », p.108

    #Arendt #citation #exegèse #vérité #agnotologie #postFactuel #complotisme #réalité #Russie #Poutine #suprémacisme #Netanyahou #nazisme #Allemagne #totalitarisme #médias #infox