[CheshireTheCat]

Many more examples of unreason discussed in this essay.

[Auntie Mame]

Great article. Needed it. Thanks.

[Weirdad]

Thank you for the post. It might be one of the best articles I’ve read on the current phenomenon. The fact that it discusses Nazi fascism makes it a little more difficult to use the way I often use articles, giving them to people who need to do some thinking. They might think I’m calling them a Nazi! Some of them are, but some aren’t. However, it’s precisely what many people who understand that American freedom is critical to everyone’s health are wondering, how is it that so many people can go along with these things????? This provides insight.

[Lurker]

For later.

L

[Savage Beast]

'Eichmann wasn’t the incarnation of evil that she expected to encounter. His actions were monstrous, yes; but he was remarkably ordinary or “banal,” to use Arendt’s term of choice.’

What struck Arendt was Eichmann’s “curious, but authentic, inability to think.”

“However monstrous the deeds were, the doer was neither monstrous nor demonic, and the only specific characteristic one could detect in his past as well as in his behavior during the trial and the preceding police examination was something entirely negative: it was not stupidity but a curious, quite authentic inability to think.”

‘his “only personal distinction was a perhaps extraordinary shallowness.”’

We witness such extraordinary shallowness every day in the hatred and mendacity of the enemies of President Trump. Some call it “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

’Eichmann showed no will to think beyond the clichés—the memes, bumper sticker slogans, and hashtags—of his day.

This is the danger that groupthink and mendacity pose for America.

It is the responsibility of the free press truthfully to inform the people. Mendacity, including disinformation, distortion, and abandoning truth for propaganda, violate this responsibility.

‘the phenomenon that she witnessed in Eichmann she knew was one that is endemic to human beings generally.

‘Arendt knew that there was nothing unique at all about Eichmann. Quite the contrary: He was ordinary, all too ordinary, to paraphrase Nietzsche. But this was the problem.’

This is the problem that the American People have today.

[Comment Not Approved]

Very good article. It seems our freedoms are being willfully given up for our safety. The scary thing to me is how quickly this has happened.

And with so little gunfire.

[.30Carbine]

“The Great UnReason”

That’s a good name for it. Well done.