Where loneliness can lead
Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism
NOW THAT I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION!
This has to be the best article I've ever read on the trend towards Fascism across the Western World. And it wasn't written by some political hack, a "social scientist" who's is the interviewer's cousin's brother, or your crazy uncle Fred. It was written by a philosopher and gosh darn it, it's worth the read. Soothe your amygdala with some chamomile tea and dust off your prefrontal cortex and thalamus so you can take this in:
"Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.
We think from experience, and when we no longer have new experiences in the world to think from, we lose the standards of thought that guide us in thinking about the world. And when one submits to the self-compulsion of ideological thinking, one surrenders one’s inner freedom to think. It is this submission to the force of logical deduction that ‘prepares each individual in his lonely isolation against all others’ for tyranny. Free movement in thinking is replaced by the propulsive, singular current of ideological thought."
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