Ponder this:

[dixiegrrrrl]

“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth
is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie,
but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world
— and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end
— is being destroyed."

Hannah Arendt

[scarletwoman]

1. Wow. That's excellent, thank you. (nt)

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Figured I was not the only night owl up and about.

Arendt's study of evil is intense, I still can only take small bites at a time.

[Solly Mack]

4. I think she should be required reading.

I read a little then spend time thinking about it. Read some more, repeat the process.

It took me a good while to get through "The Origins of Totalitarianism ".

[calimary]

6. Nope, you're not the only night owl up and about.

As our own Skittles would say - "someone's always here."

A riff on that might be - "someone's always up."

[SleeplessinSoCal]

5. Why?

Why is torturing the American psyche the method of choice for the tRumpublican Party? Are they that vacuous? Or that cruel? And why to your fellow citizens? Democrats dared to pass health care legislation and they sold their souls and totally lost their minds.

[Demovictory9]

7. k&r

[LuckyLib]

8. Thank you. Seems she is someone I should have read years ago.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Look up "The Banality of Evil."

it's an important perspective.

[Delphinus]

10. This is quite good.

I have a friend who knows her works and I think I'll share it with him.

Thank you!

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Always happy to hear people like her writing. n/t