“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 (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
“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 (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt
This isn’t just an empty quote, but psychologically studied and backed with empirical evidence. Some people are extremely susceptible to fascism.
Read Bob Altemeyer’s work for more deets: https://theauthoritarians.org/
I know it’s not an empty quote, I’m German and I know who Hannah Arendt was, and that was why I thought this quote to be particularly poignant here.
Was lending strength to your quote for others that happen to come across it 💪
Who the fuck downvotes a Hannah Arendt quote…?