1951 Hannah Arendt quote on the origins of totalitarianism nails it: “this process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools…”

h/t @PeterKramer

@garymarcus @PeterKramer Kakistocracy is my word of the month.
@garymarcus @PeterKramer is the Arendt scale linear or logarithmic?