If one is serious about learning about mass formation, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism is highly recommended. One key point in Origins: Stalin killed millions to create the conditions of mass society in which totalitarian rule is possible. The Great Reset is doing something parallel by destroying the middle classes, the pro…
If one is serious about learning about mass formation, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism is highly recommended. One key point in Origins: Stalin killed millions to create the conditions of mass society in which totalitarian rule is possible. The Great Reset is doing something parallel by destroying the middle classes, the property owning classes and working classes. We are being reduced to atomized individuals ever more. And technology everywhere does the work of the storm troopers....digitization is creating the conditions of totalitarian rule ever more. This can and should be understood as a political strategy.
From here, Arendt explains, totalitarianism is about rule by terror. This is the revolution devouring it's own children. Totalitarianism continually terrorize because its rule is based on permanent destabilization. Stability is the nemesis of totalitarianism. After they deal with the unvaxxed, they will HAVE TO come for some other group. Perhaps it will be the allegedly most susceptible to a disease. What a perfect use for all the genomics...it will give them cause to continually determine who then must be put into "protective custody." All for the greater good.
Re: Socrates and Parrhesia (frank, true speech). The model is a bit more Diogenes than Socrates. Diogenes was known as "The mad Socrates," as he really questioned everything. He was totally free in his speech and thinking. This is an important point from Arendt's point of view because logical thinking is the danger actually in her view. Ideological thinking always begins from a single unassailable premise and logically deduces anything. We might say: the vaccines are safe and effective, it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, Fauci is good....According to Arendt, once a premise is accepted as unquestionable people can be convinced to do anything. If the unvaccinated are a public health threat...then it is only logical.... Arendt is very serious on this point and it importantly overlaps what Desmet discusses as hypnosis from a narrow field of perception. People want to-need to -- hold onto the premise as it gives them enormous meaning. The element of ideological thinking from logical deduction also speaks to why the highly educated elites are often/typically more fanatical/dangerous. They have internalized the logic so much that they don't need directions...Arendt insists that having some bad premises but open patterns of thought is much less dangerous that following rigorous logic from unassailable premises.
Diogenes more than Socrates is the model. Logic is not the savior. Both Hitler and Stalin, Arendt insists, convinced people to do the unthinkable through their logical arguments.
This certainly makes sense of my experience with my family, many of whom are medical professionals. It also makes sense of my own past failures of thinking. Having those unassailable premises....for me it was "Barack Obama is the most trustworthy president ever."
One final point on what should be done. According to Arendt, constitutional protections are all that stands between us and utilitarian justifications of anything. She says that in such times even bad laws are better than nothing. Thinking strategically, I think we must do everything we can to bolster and protect legal frameworks. This means convincing people on the right and the left that it is no time to give up on whatever legal frameworks we have.
Yes, they are and here we are like sheep to the slaughter. I just listened to Dr. Mobeen and he read the letter doctor's are receiving from insurance companies to not order Ivm. Very sad for all of us. It is cold in Tulsa. Overcast and cold.
If one is serious about learning about mass formation, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism is highly recommended. One key point in Origins: Stalin killed millions to create the conditions of mass society in which totalitarian rule is possible. The Great Reset is doing something parallel by destroying the middle classes, the property owning classes and working classes. We are being reduced to atomized individuals ever more. And technology everywhere does the work of the storm troopers....digitization is creating the conditions of totalitarian rule ever more. This can and should be understood as a political strategy.
From here, Arendt explains, totalitarianism is about rule by terror. This is the revolution devouring it's own children. Totalitarianism continually terrorize because its rule is based on permanent destabilization. Stability is the nemesis of totalitarianism. After they deal with the unvaxxed, they will HAVE TO come for some other group. Perhaps it will be the allegedly most susceptible to a disease. What a perfect use for all the genomics...it will give them cause to continually determine who then must be put into "protective custody." All for the greater good.
Re: Socrates and Parrhesia (frank, true speech). The model is a bit more Diogenes than Socrates. Diogenes was known as "The mad Socrates," as he really questioned everything. He was totally free in his speech and thinking. This is an important point from Arendt's point of view because logical thinking is the danger actually in her view. Ideological thinking always begins from a single unassailable premise and logically deduces anything. We might say: the vaccines are safe and effective, it is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, Fauci is good....According to Arendt, once a premise is accepted as unquestionable people can be convinced to do anything. If the unvaccinated are a public health threat...then it is only logical.... Arendt is very serious on this point and it importantly overlaps what Desmet discusses as hypnosis from a narrow field of perception. People want to-need to -- hold onto the premise as it gives them enormous meaning. The element of ideological thinking from logical deduction also speaks to why the highly educated elites are often/typically more fanatical/dangerous. They have internalized the logic so much that they don't need directions...Arendt insists that having some bad premises but open patterns of thought is much less dangerous that following rigorous logic from unassailable premises.
Diogenes more than Socrates is the model. Logic is not the savior. Both Hitler and Stalin, Arendt insists, convinced people to do the unthinkable through their logical arguments.
This certainly makes sense of my experience with my family, many of whom are medical professionals. It also makes sense of my own past failures of thinking. Having those unassailable premises....for me it was "Barack Obama is the most trustworthy president ever."
One final point on what should be done. According to Arendt, constitutional protections are all that stands between us and utilitarian justifications of anything. She says that in such times even bad laws are better than nothing. Thinking strategically, I think we must do everything we can to bolster and protect legal frameworks. This means convincing people on the right and the left that it is no time to give up on whatever legal frameworks we have.
Yes, they are and here we are like sheep to the slaughter. I just listened to Dr. Mobeen and he read the letter doctor's are receiving from insurance companies to not order Ivm. Very sad for all of us. It is cold in Tulsa. Overcast and cold.