{"id":24160,"date":"2024-08-17T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=24160"},"modified":"2024-08-17T10:34:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T07:34:29","slug":"total-domination-of-the-globe-total-destructiveness-of-human-individuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=24160","title":{"rendered":"Total domination of the globe, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">total<\/span> destructiveness of human individuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Indeed, it is to science fiction, rather than to the more humane Utopias of the past, that we must look for the extremities of the totalitarian\u2019s belief that, while nothing may be in itself meaningful, everything may be possible. Hannah Arendt\u2019s extraordinarily penetrating book makes plain that totalitarianism, whether Nazi or Stalinist, cannot be understood so long as we continue to use the traditional categories of common sense: it cannot be explained by the mere desire for power, for national expansion, for class revenge\u2014for any motives that are simply human, though evil. Totalitarians are \u201cinhuman\u201d in that they are motivated toward total domination of the globe, toward total destructiveness of human individuality everywhere. Their goals are based neither on specific, narrow interests nor even on the utopianism of earlier ideologies, religious or socialist, which sought to extend in the future the sway of certain already given values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014David Riesman, (1951, April). Review of <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">The Origins of Totalitarianism<\/span>, by <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Hannah Arendt<\/span>. <em>Commentary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indeed, it is to science fiction, rather than to the more humane Utopias of the past, that we must look for the extremities of the totalitarian\u2019s belief that, while nothing may be in itself meaningful, everything may be possible. Hannah &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=24160\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}