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#HannahArendt #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
litgirl96.bsky.social
#OTD #HannahArendt was born in 1906. Recommended reading: any of her works but more especially now Vol. 3 of #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism.
One fascination is that she was born the same year as my grandmother & great aunt but had a very different life.
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
marcohackney.bsky.social
#HannahArendt
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#LadiesOfLiberty
#genocide #Gaza #iimpunity
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
roundsparrow.bsky.social
#SuperiorTacticalCleverness.

#HannahArendt

#TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism Year 1951

#FWakeY1951 #FWakeYear1951 /\

USA, you have been behaving this way since March 2013. #SinceMarch2013 #DearUSA
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ... Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
July 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
jmwenstrom.bsky.social
American revelations haiku

One third of us would
Kill another third while the
Rest of us watch on

Inspired by a quote from Harlan Coben

#haiku #badpoetryohnoetry #americanrevelations #thisviolencemuststop #theoriginsoftotalitarianism #haikusforreallife #harlancoben #resist #nokings
June 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
therenaissancewmn.bsky.social
Here's my take on connecting the dots between the current events on the middle east and Arendt's prophetic observations.
#radicalevil #theoriginsoftotalitarianism #totalitarian #culturalphilosophy #technology
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Radical Evil
Understanding automated warfare and campaigns of dehumanisation through the writings of Hannah Arendt (Part I)
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June 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
adelinamarini.bsky.social
Hanna Arendt described clearly what we are currently witnessing with Trump 2.0. And yet, we've failed to protect ourselves from repetitions #TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism
April 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
meehawl.com
Pam Bondi: L33t h4ck0r.

Arendt: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." "The Origins Of Totalitarianism" https://archive.org/details/TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism
March 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
thenextpage.bsky.social
#TheOriginsofTotalitarianism
#HannahArendt

It was this chain reaction, inherent in imperialist power politics...of which Kipling said (in Kim), “When every one is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before."
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March 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
rufie.bsky.social
“Om te kunnen gedijen, moet de totalitaire propaganda ontsnappen uit de werkelijkheid en haar toevlucht nemen tot fictie, het toeval vervangen door consistentie.” Hannah Arendt over hoe totalitaire staten kunnen onstaan. #TheOriginsofTotalitarianism #hannaharendt
The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
linapavlova.bsky.social
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore [.....]

With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt in 1933

#hannaharendt #TheOriginsofTotalitarianism
February 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
freqskeets.bsky.social
#TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism by #HannahArendt
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free to download 500 page pdf
1958 Then Kennedy and MLK, but they were shot (by #RWNJ), then we had Nixon, RayGun, The Bushies and now #TraitorTrump

This will then be followed by an eternity of silence
#RIPdemocracy #Science
February 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
foregone-shadow.bsky.social
Just wanna remind everyone that The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt is still in print and maybe a perfectly relevant subject for your own personal reading challenge. #arendt #theoriginsoftotalitarianism #curefascismreadphilosophy #yesyhisiscomingfromasmutryfanfictionwritersueme
January 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."

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Book cover of The Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
January 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
thenextpage.bsky.social
…regarding success and failure under totalitarian circumstances…In a totally fictitious world, failures need not be recorded, admitted, and remembered.

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June 24, 2024 at 9:09 PM
thenextpage.bsky.social
…where the common good was identified with the sum total of individual interests….the owning and dominant classes had convinced everybody that economic interest and the passion for ownership are a sound basis for the body politic….

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June 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM
thenextpage.bsky.social
The masses' escape from reality…in which they are forced to live and…cannot exist, since coincidence has become its supreme master and human beings need the constant transformation of chaotic…conditions into a man-made pattern of relative consistency.

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#HannahArendt
June 9, 2024 at 1:57 AM
thenextpage.bsky.social
The foundation legend, as Kipling tells it…”You'll win the world…without anyone caring how you did it: you'll keep the world without anyone knowing how you did it: and you'll carry the world on your backs without anyone seeing how you did it….”

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#HannahArendt
June 5, 2024 at 10:16 AM
thenextpage.bsky.social
Throughout the eighteenth century, American slave-holders themselves considered it a temporary institution and wanted to abolish it gradually. Most of them probably would have said with Jefferson: "I tremble when I think that God is just."

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#HannahArendt
May 28, 2024 at 2:37 AM
thenextpage.bsky.social
"Expansion is everything," said Cecil Rhodes, and fell into despair, for every night he saw overhead "these stars ... these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could."

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#HannahArendt
May 24, 2024 at 10:11 AM
thenextpage.bsky.social
Equality of condition…is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of modern mankind. The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people….

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May 21, 2024 at 1:52 PM