Lori Emerson on Nostr: and again. "Whenever equality becomes a mundane fact in itself, without any gauge ...
and again. "Whenever equality becomes a mundane fact in itself, without any gauge by which it may be measured or explained, then there is one chance in a hundred that it will be simply recognized as a working principle of a political organization in which otherwise unequal people have equal rights; there are ninety-nine chances that it will be mistaken for an innate quality of every individual, who is 'normal' if he is like everybody else and 'abnormal' if he happens to be different." --Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) #Arendt #totalitarianism
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