#idolization — Public Fediverse posts
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"#Trump was posthumously awarding #CharlieKirk America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom."
👉I report on the recurrence of #Totalitarianism👈
“#Totalitarian movements... make use of mass loneliness and isolation, transform the mass of people into a crowd capable of acting in concert, and 👉foster the #Idolization of leaders and the glorification of #Martyrdom as instruments of collective identity👈.”
— #HannahArendt,...
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#Musk, #Trump & Co proves one thing with finality: #Idolization is bad for #psyche.
Of course it rears its ugly head when times are tough and people need someone to look up to, someone to imprint on.
But as has been proven time and time again, idolizing the rich and powerful is a really bad idea.
Not that it's all bad. Friday was #DillaDay and if anyone deserved to be idolized it's someone like him. But of course, he was a genius composer and an artist and not an #oligarch or a #president.