The futility of pointing out the blatant hypocrisy from the Trump GOP is evidence of a creeping fascism.
From Hypocrisy to Fascism
Tag: Origins of Totalitarianism
Do We Want Our Predictions to Fail?
A version of this article first appeared on Quartz. In her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism, in the section on propaganda, Hannah Arendt discusses a concept she calls “infallible prediction”: The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. The assumption of infallibility, moreover, is based… Continue reading Do We Want Our Predictions to Fail?
