WATCH AS VIDEO Where does totalitarianism begin? This is the question that Hannah Arendt wanted to answer, and the following quote from her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, provides us with at least one place to begin to answer this question: “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy…
Watch As Video Today’s quote from Hannah Arendt is particularly timely as academics (and others) in the West increasingly question some of the most basic biological realities of life, and as AI and other technologies make it increasingly difficult to discern truth from falsity. Here’s the quote: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not…
Watch As Video As I mentioned in my last installment, Hannah Arendt saw firsthand the rise of totalitarian fascism in her home country of Germany. She saw that the lack of appreciation for what one has, which includes intangibles such as one’s culture, one’s history, the cultural and physical institutions that one has inherited (and…
After considering some of Neil Postman’s seminal ideas, I’ve decided to go ahead and move on to our next great thinker, Hannah Arendt. We will return to Postman eventually, but for now it seems a good time to dive into the thought of one of our other great 20th century giants. While it might not…
