#cynicism — Public Fediverse posts
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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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So my local Board of Elections was kind enough to send me a postcard informing me that there were no non-partisan elections coming up next month for the primary, and therefore I wouldn't need to come to the polls, as I can't vote in them.
In other words, I'm in a closed primary state, where only the Democrats vote for their ilk, the Fasc^H^H^H^HRepublicans vote for theirs, and the winners of each go on to meet each other in the General in November. In other words, the playoffs, but for politics.
Which is how it should be, really, if parties are to mean anything. Of course, I do not vote like seemingly everyone else around me votes - they treat it like it's Survivor, apparently - so several states have, to my feelings, weirder ways of doing it. As an example, I think California has something called the "jungle primary" where literally everyone gets on the same ballot and they take the top two for a runoff, which is so mindbogglingly stupid that the person responsible should be beaten with a stick.
Of course, I also know about election methods, and wish that we could have Mixed Member Proportional for the legislature and maybe a Condorcet for single member seats (I'd accept AV or STV), but I'm in such a vanishingly small minority in that respect - as I discovered during my political career - that I soon realized that staying quiet about things was for the best. (I'm certainly not going to join up with the Republican or Democratic Parties for what should be obvious reasons.)
Side note: There's also Delegative, or "Liquid" Democracy, which I really find innovative, and we have the technology to pull it off, but again, we'd need to come to some sort of understanding about what #democracy is actually designed to do, and considering we're still having the "debate" about the Electoral Fucking College, I have no illusions of anything guided by a modicum of reason penetrating into the public consciousness in the foreseeable future.
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#Revolutionary #Radical #Progressive #Politics is mostly just #cynicism, #laziness, #regressive #edgelord #fascist enablement designed to get a hit off #SelfRighteousness
You're revolutionary? How much water do you have? How much food are you willing to give to someone so that they can #fight instead of work? How many people do you know that would be willing to sponsor you fighting with their food?
A violent #revolution would require organizing a thousand WTO #protests every month for 5 years. Are there even enough people (about ten million) that would be willing to support your cause if it were organized?
Everyone who's spending their energy fighting the mainstream left of center (in the #USA or anywhere) is engaging in the exact behavior #Stalinists engaged in that helped #fascism rise.
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#Revolutionary #Radical #Progressive #Politics is mostly just #cynicism, #laziness, #regressive #edgelord #fascist enablement designed to get a hit off #SelfRighteousness
You're revolutionary? How much water do you have? How much food are you willing to give to someone so that they can #fight instead of work? How many people do you know that would be willing to sponsor you fighting with their food?
A violent #revolution would require organizing a thousand WTO #protests every month for 5 years. Are there even enough people (about ten million) that would be willing to support your cause if it were organized?
Everyone who's spending their energy fighting the mainstream left of center (in the #USA or anywhere) is engaging in the exact behavior #Stalinists engaged in that helped #fascism rise.
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#Revolutionary #Radical #Progressive #Politics is mostly just #cynicism, #laziness, #regressive #edgelord #fascist enablement designed to get a hit off #SelfRighteousness
You're revolutionary? How much water do you have? How much food are you willing to give to someone so that they can #fight instead of work? How many people do you know that would be willing to sponsor you fighting with their food?
A violent #revolution would require organizing a thousand WTO #protests every month for 5 years. Are there even enough people (about ten million) that would be willing to support your cause if it were organized?
Everyone who's spending their energy fighting the mainstream left of center (in the #USA or anywhere) is engaging in the exact behavior #Stalinists engaged in that helped #fascism rise.
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#Revolutionary #Radical #Progressive #Politics is mostly just #cynicism, #laziness, #regressive #edgelord #fascist enablement designed to get a hit off #SelfRighteousness
You're revolutionary? How much water do you have? How much food are you willing to give to someone so that they can #fight instead of work? How many people do you know that would be willing to sponsor you fighting with their food?
A violent #revolution would require organizing a thousand WTO #protests every month for 5 years. Are there even enough people (about ten million) that would be willing to support your cause if it were organized?
Everyone who's spending their energy fighting the mainstream left of center (in the #USA or anywhere) is engaging in the exact behavior #Stalinists engaged in that helped #fascism rise.
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#Revolutionary #Radical #Progressive #Politics is mostly just #cynicism, #laziness, #regressive #edgelord #fascist enablement designed to get a hit off #SelfRighteousness
You're revolutionary? How much water do you have? How much food are you willing to give to someone so that they can #fight instead of work? How many people do you know that would be willing to sponsor you fighting with their food?
A violent #revolution would require organizing a thousand WTO #protests every month for 5 years. Are there even enough people (about ten million) that would be willing to support your cause if it were organized?
Everyone who's spending their energy fighting the mainstream left of center (in the #USA or anywhere) is engaging in the exact behavior #Stalinists engaged in that helped #fascism rise.