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Arendt had written about how ordinary people were capable of unspeakable cruelties in The Origins of Totalitarianism. Much of this began, she said, with Western imperialism, with racism, con-quest, and greed, and with an organized brutality that then leaked back to a Europe wrecked by war, unemployment, and poverty.
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Love is what makes us human, plural, alive to one another and to the human condition itself.
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In the Origins of Totalitarianism she (Arendt) called this the propaganda effect of infallibility: the trick of appearing omnipotent by prophesying a future that you then make happen.
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the anonymity and vulnerability of placeless people is also, potentially at least, everybody’s problem because it exposes the weak spot at the heart of a system that relies solely on the reliability of nation states and human goodwill.
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We cannot help being born, where we are born, and in what time. That beginning is not our responsibility. But we can learn to respond to the world we are born into, however fast-moving or bewildering that experience might be.
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“Thinking means that each time you are confronted with some difficulty in life you have to make up your mind anew” (The Life of the Mind 177)
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