05-29-2021, 08:01 AM
The Crisis this time is COVID-19, which has killed over 600,000 Americans alone. Although the death toll has abated some, a country whose threadbare infrastructure allows little redundancy (India) is now undergoing mass death that even ravages its economic and cultural elite.
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.