Tony Pennino
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” #HannahArendt
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Jan 18, 2023 at 2:58pmWeb
Show threadPrincess of Whales Jan 18, 2023
@beatnikprof damn was she ever spot on
Show threadTony PenninoJan 18, 2023
@princesaballena She definitely had our number.
Show threadMartin FarrentJan 18, 2023
@beatnikprof ... or people who don't initially *feel* the totalitarianism of the regime, because nothing they want to say or do seems affected.
Show threadTony PenninoJan 18, 2023
@MartinFarrent She probably couldn’t grasp how rampant and corrosive consumerism would become.
Show threadMartin FarrentJan 18, 2023
@beatnikprof On the other hand, she did know about the Nazis‘ staggered approach to regime consolidation. I knew (they are mostly now dead) apolitical Germans who didn‘t wake up until they were losing a war, because they had felt largely unrestricted personally until that moment. Dictators know better than to ban the very ordinary.
Show threadRobert DenbyJan 18, 2023

@beatnikprof

So, basically, a plurality of americans at this point.

Show threadbs2Feb 3, 2023
@beatnikprof I guess Hannah Arendt noticed this a long time before that Philosopher came out with _On Bullshit_ and taught us the difference between a bullshitter and a liar.