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Monday, January 29, 2024

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule (Arendt)

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

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