03-19-2021, 02:32 AM
I finally took a trip to a bookstore that has largely been closed since COVID-10 became a menace... on a Christmas gift card.
The book that I have started to read is The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt.
I thought that it would be of little relevance to America once Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 election. Then came an event that resembled in some ways the Bolsheviks storming the Winter palace in Petrograd and the Beer Hall Putsch.
I still see Trump banners flying high and proud. I never saw that for Obama.
The book that I have started to read is The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt.
I thought that it would be of little relevance to America once Donald Trump was defeated in the 2020 election. Then came an event that resembled in some ways the Bolsheviks storming the Winter palace in Petrograd and the Beer Hall Putsch.
I still see Trump banners flying high and proud. I never saw that for Obama.
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.