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(5,626 posts)Perfectly observed and documented.
Wounded Bear
(60,396 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,626 posts)Yes we do.
liberalla
(9,855 posts)Succinct and accurate... and so easy to understand when distilled to this simple statement (quote).
Thank you.
wnylib
(24,017 posts)The narcissist gains power by blurring fact and lie until reality itself is blurred.
There are a lot of Psy-ops in Republican Politics........much more than the general population understands, or even recognizes....
KS Toronado
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Hitler would not have liked her!
Hannah was a female philosopher
FakeNoose
(35,221 posts)She has an interesting life story....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
KS Toronado
(19,254 posts)Time for a 2nd cup of coffee.
c-rational
(2,839 posts)jaxexpat
(7,601 posts)soldierant
(7,744 posts)maybe even most, but it also brings out the best in some. Consider the White Rose Society. And people like MSgt Rodney Edmonds, an American soldier who posthumously received the CMOH and the title of righteous among the nations. (Posthumously not becaise he was killed in the war, but because he never spoke about it to anyone. His son discovered the incident in his journals after he ded.)
jfz9580m
(14,897 posts)Still have only read about half of it. It was so creepy back then with all the stories in the news about militia networks etc.
NNadir
(34,380 posts)I recall having some problems with Arendt's writings when I was going through them years back, although I cannot specifically recall what they were, it having been so long ago.
This said, my problems, such as they were, did not detract from my admiration of her work.
This is an excellent quote and evocation for these times, and I thank you for pointing to it.
Farmer-Rick
(11,127 posts)Religion attempts to do the same thing. They feed people ridiculous fantasy filled stories.
A talking snake, a burning bush that doesn't burn, a curse on a tree, healing people by touching them, a virgin pregnancy and birth, demons in pigs, bringing people back from the dead, using a few fish and loaves to feed crowds, turning water into wine.....and on and on the lies an impossibilities pile up.
If you believe all that then you can very easily believe a Nazi, threatening people who disagree with him, will make a great democratic leader.
erronis
(16,678 posts)LisaM
(28,407 posts)People were not expected to believe them and many religious people don't believe them now. It's Creationists and Fundamentalists who do.
Farmer-Rick
(11,127 posts)I wholeheartidly believed every word the nuns taught me in Catholic School.
Several times I thought I would die for accidentally touching the host. I had nightmares of Jesus bleeding, tortured, dying on the cross. It's a horrible story to tell children.
Anyway, I grew up, learned logic and what evidence was. If you don't believe all the mumbo-jumbo, are you really a believer?
soldierant
(7,744 posts)Some of the Bible is straight history, but it also contains high poetry, including love poetry, and a whole lot of allegory and parable. It also contains horrible examples, like the "cursing psalms." C. S, Lewis used to say "If you cannot understand a book which was written for adults..." I don;t remember exactly how he finished the sentence, but there are many ways to end it. My personal favorite is "maybe you shouldn't be talking about it."
Tetrachloride
(8,379 posts)really annoyed.
birdographer
(2,457 posts)One of the key characteristics of the MAGA cult members is not that they are gullible, poorly educated, and incapable of critical thinking, it's that they very simply do not know the difference between right and wrong.
bucolic_frolic
(46,405 posts)She wrote several books, I think I read "On Freedom". Her works are filled with great quotes. Off the top of my head -
"Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/bureaucracy-and-violence-2017-10-08
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College
Wiz Imp
(1,203 posts)TommieMommy
(932 posts)iluvtennis
(20,677 posts)calimary
(83,835 posts)Amazing AND infuriating.
LisaM
(28,407 posts)Small wonder the tech overlords love it.
jfz9580m
(14,897 posts)You mean this Small Wonder?
Heh..I wonder if anyone other than me even remembers that show..
lame54
(36,539 posts)Who is ahead in this race
No clue whatsoever
dlk
(12,231 posts)Thank you for posting.
Ping Tung
(1,170 posts)Jim__
(14,408 posts)From a post by Roger Berkowitz:
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want." -Hannah Arendt
Ive received numerous emails in the last month asking for the provenance of this quotation. At first, I looked, since to be honest, the spirit of the quote is very much in line with Arendts own thought. But as far as I can tell, Hannah Arendt never said this or wrote this. She did, however, say many similar things. Which begs the question: Why would someone create a fake quotation when so many real ones express a similar viewpoint? And, does such an altered quotation matter?
To answer this question, it is important to first look at the quotations that likely serve as the source for the fake aphorism.
I found this while trying to find the larger context for the quote. Some similar quotatations are given at the site.
Martin68
(24,379 posts)of eery single one of the country's institutions. They started by attacking the integrity of the election process, and then began spewing lies about every part of the local, state, and federal government when they did not perfectly align with MAGA goals.
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Beartracks
(13,432 posts)MontanaMama
(23,948 posts)I was just on that foul Next Door app and the MAGAts are describing Dems as hateful, vengeance filled people. Boggles the mind.