"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
In the Origins of Totalitarianism, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt reminds us that both Hitler and Stalin mobilized “masses not classes.” By that she meant that when societies implode in economic disaster, class-based identities crumble. The society becomes ripe for mass mobilization by an adventurer who will mold the masses with new identities. Whether Napoleon Bonaparte, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, or Peron, the script is remarkably the same.
Yup. Alas, we have far too many contenders in the leading role for that script;
I’ve always suspected the bar exam is too easy. This is further proof.
Yes, yes it is.
At least Alabamians, regardless of their views of abortion and the recent almost-certainly-doomed law, cannot say of board members that, “We know what they are, and we know what their price is.”
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In the Origins of Totalitarianism, the political philosopher Hannah Arendt reminds us that both Hitler and Stalin mobilized “masses not classes.” By that she meant that when societies implode in economic disaster, class-based identities crumble. The society becomes ripe for mass mobilization by an adventurer who will mold the masses with new identities. Whether Napoleon Bonaparte, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, or Peron, the script is remarkably the same.
Yup. Alas, we have far too many contenders in the leading role for that script;
I’ve always suspected the bar exam is too easy. This is further proof.
Yes, yes it is.
At least Alabamians, regardless of their views of abortion and the recent almost-certainly-doomed law, cannot say of board members that, “We know what they are, and we know what their price is.”
Roll Tide.
Amen.
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