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orangecrush

(24,406 posts) Wed Apr 30, 2025, 10:56 AM Wednesday

Is this a real quote? If so ...

We are in a world of shit.

He and his cult are knowingly and literally following a formula, and they are succeeding.

Edit - just looked it up.

It's real.

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Is this a real quote? If so ... (Original Post) orangecrush Wednesday OP

It's real; it's from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism." Ocelot II Wednesday #1

It helps tonkatoy8888 Wednesday #2

Ocelot II

(124,512 posts)

1. It's real; it's from Hannah Arendt's book "The Origins of Totalitarianism."

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 11:02 AM

Wednesday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism

tonkatoy8888

(81 posts)

2. It helps

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Wed Apr 30, 2025, 12:00 PM

Wednesday

that in our present situation the person at the top is also wholly without intelligence or creativity.

It took no strategic planning on his part to find people devoid of intelligence or creativity. He only had to look around and find people exactly like himself. The only qualification being that he was certain that they were even more stupid and cowardly than himself.

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