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)

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Arendt, Hannah - The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 "A Classless Society," sec. 1 (1951) | WIST Quotations

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.

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Eine immens wichtige Textstelle, auch gerade in diesen Zeiten #arendt #fascism #NIEWIEDERISTJETZT
1.Heute ist der Todestag von Heidegger. Vor allem in der anglo-amerikanischen Welt hat er weiter Anhänger. Wenn man verstehen will, wer Heidegger war, sollte man Hannah #Arendt lesen. In ihrem Denktagebuch hat sie die Metapher aufgegriffen, mit der #Heidegger sich selbst einmal beschrieb: den Fuchs🦊
@futurebird More fundamentally: they think #AI means we've outlived our usefulness and they straight-up want to kill us all, as Hannah #Arendt predicted in the 1960s. They just don't want to get caught trying it. #exterminism #DeathWithDeniability

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)

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Arendt, Hannah - Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 "A Classless Society," sec. 1 (1951) | WIST Quotations

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…

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@meltedcheese @Npars01 @mcnado No. Our death is NOT a means to an end. Our death IS the end. They think they will soon have AI doing all the work. And they aren't just indifferent to our existence; they actively hate us and want to kill us, even if they don't gain anything else by killing us. Hannah #Arendt predicted this in the 1960s.

They don't need a reason to kill us.

They need a reason not to.

#HannahArendt bubble: Kann mir jemand helfen die Rede des Kultursenators von Hamburg zu finden, der 1959 #Arendt den Lessingpreis übergeben hat? Ihre Rede habe ich. Can you help me find the speech given by Hamburg’s Cultural Senator, who presented Arendt with the Lessing Prize in 1959? DANKE !!!

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

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https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/lespace-public-colonise-quand-le-prive-explose-dans-la-cite/

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 pri…

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