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Miranda Childe's avatar

As I read them, I focused on the fact that breaking down people’s being able to distinguish between truth and radical falsehood was at the root of the dissolution of order in the society. I believe that is true.

Arendt’s writings were a true assessment of her time and a disturbingly prescient description of our word today. Dictators are in vogue now and those of us who see past the tricks must fight harder than ever to save hope in the world.

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Susan I Weinstein's avatar

Love these. Ahrendt used these disassociations in her escapes, because the captors were also vulnerable.

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