Tag Archives: Hannah Arendt

  The German philosopher, Hannah Arendt is considered one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century. She was a Holocaust survivor who spent many years questioning how it was possible for a modern, democratic state such as pre-World War II Germany, to turn into a totalitarian state and a brutal regime that killed millions of its own …

  In the famous German philosopher, Hannah Arendt ground-breaking book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, she analyzed the 20th century growth of atheist totalitarianism that led to Holocaust and the concentration camps of the Gulag in Russia. In the attempt to understand how the rise of totalitarianism was possible in Germany and Russia, she seeks to understand the power structures that …

  As we watch how intolerance, repression of diversity and totalitarianism is growing yet again in the West, the German philosopher, Hannah Arendt is worth revisiting. She is considered one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century and spent many years examining how it was possible for a modern, democratic state such as pre-World War II Germany, …

  The rise of totalitarianism in modern societies happens in nations where Marxism first is infused into society. The Marxist Left produces Totalitarianism: It is a must to create Marxist repressive revolutions that bring fear and terror into the population and thereby silence political opposition in order to fundamentally alter the whole culture and the social fabric of the nation. …

  Professor of Clinical Psychology, Mattias Desmet’s book The Psychology of Totalitarianism is well worth reading: The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that …

  In times of massive political upheaval such as what we now are witnessing, the German philosopher, Hannah Arendt might be worth revisiting. Big Brother Totalitarian Control: She lived to see World War II and the totalitarian Nazi regime up close and wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism to warn the world of the terrible fate of those who embrace authoritarianism. …

  Herland Report: Atheism is New Religion: A remarkable disdain for traditional religion engulfs the West. It causes all kinds of demonization in the mainstream media against Christianity, religion and traditional values that once made the West such a great civilization. It becomes quite ironic that atheism, the new elite fashion, can easily be defined as a new religion, purely …

  Herland Report: As the Western elites again are enticed by totalitarian systems and the deprivation of civil liberties among its citizens, Aldous Huxley is worth remembering. He provided an excellent description of the road to tyranny in his celebrated book Brave New World (1932). Huxley shows how restricted society becomes if personal initiative, individualism, social responsibility and the right to …

  Herland Report: Aldous Huxley spoke in 1958 to CBS Mike Wallace about a coming tyranny. The interview is worth revisiting. Engulfed in a politicized Covid-19 pandemic, where lockdowns crush the national economies in Western countries (Asia does not seem to have the same level of lockdowns), the Huxley scenario seems ever more realistic. Under the current globalist-Capitalist system, we are …

  Herland Report: Politics of Fear: “Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. How do you persuade a populace …