05-15-2019, 01:15 AM
(05-14-2019, 08:32 PM)Hintergrund Wrote: Obama was no good.
In Howe-Strauss terminology he was pre-seasonal. He is a mature Reactive, the sort who acts with little cynicism and knows enough to not make the settling of scores a focus of his leadership. He is the sort of leader one usually gets after the Crisis or near its end. Donald Trump is everything that can be wrong with an Idealist with none of the virtues.
Quote:And TV made more good stuff than cinema.
That depends on what television and cinema one watches.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.