Hannah Arendt's Philosophy on Totalitarianism

In 1950s, the philosopher, Hannah Arendt, was a woman who thought intensively about the nature of totalitarianism, and later identified that there is but one thing necessary for a totalitarian regime to have success. A thing that in fact also explained why, after thousands of years of political activity and social contentions, that totalitarianism has only just appeared in the 20th century.
Hannah Arendt explains that this thing was a dynamic of isolation and loneliness.

[@someguywhosmiles]

I am a French person that has a lot of trouble understanding English. Yet your video is clear and I understood every piece of information perfectly. Good job !

[@DFM3333]

❤Hannah Arendt explains the current March to totalitarianism ❤

[@oluwajonathan5585]

I needed to write an essay about totalitarianism in my uni, and this video helped me a lot. Thank you so much!

[@arod1766]

The unvax should lose their job, their liberty. Easier to understand the fake plandemic

[@robertdabob8939]

That mass mindedness around an ideology also represents the image of an archetype of the collective unconscious, and in that understanding you find the solution - become more conscious/individuate. The more who do the less destructive the outcome.

[@xerxesbros]

what a great video with such edits and visuals!
thanks for making this Instructive content❤

[@stellabebes3999]

6months later and this is sounding eerily like my country now…

[@TurtleneckPhilosophy]

😬...which country?

[@aimanmarzuqi4804]

I’m sure we can guess

[@stephenl9463]

Excellent summation. I’m attending a weekly online reading through of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism. Organized by Roger Berkowitz of the Arendt center at BARD college.
You’re very succinct with some of the major themes. We’re up to the Totalitarian Movement.
With regard to Lonliness/Solitude, we haven’t come across that yet. Perhaps it’s up ahead. I’m happy to hear her thoughts on the dynamic between the two. I think it’s well established that solitude is healthy and fulfilling, whereas lonliness is unhealthy and empty.
I’m struck by how much Arendt’s thinking on the need for the individual to be part of the mass is in line with her contemporary Elias Canetti, in his major work, Crowds and Power. He explores the need to join from a more visceral perspective. He won the Noble Prize for literature for the book which took him 20’years to write.

[@vecxio8070]

Excellent video, very easy to follow along and understand. Thanks for your effort.

[@thierryhorrobin317]

Excellent piece of content. It helped me for a research for high school and it was a good way to understand my subject. Thank you very much!

[@TurtleneckPhilosophy]

Glad it helped your research!

[@pixelricebowl]

Thanks for this helpful overview. I wonder what Arendt would think of social media / smartphone addiction as a means by which technology companies exploit feelings of loneliness in order to maximize algorithmically driven ad revenue.

[@hmmno2210]

Also the collective loneliness results in a society with people without a sense of belonging and love for their community, so they will not be willing to fight the power, and totalitarian regime will be able to take hold. Any opposition to the regime requires some risks and sacrifices in the name of something greater. "Lonely" people are more likely to just fend for themselves and keep their heads down.
Source: living in Russia

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When truth becomes subjective.....
My truth

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Thank you!

[@AaronLit]

This is really solid 🤌

[@orlawatson6916]

great summary of my univeristy lecture

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good stuff !!

[@knighthoodMan]

Great

[@keziahspaine7574]

What's the background music at 5:09...sorry, brilliant video as well I love The Origins of Totalitarianism 😅

[@carltonjean2267]

This is great man

[@_Arugula_Salad_]

Because he perpetuates lies?

[@shuoyuanchen7800]

hold on, people are less and less connected nowadays. We are feeling more lonely whatsoever. And isn't breaking all social connections the main drive of captalism? Every social identity is slowly getting reduced to only one identity, a buyer. Are you saying we are heading towards totalitarianism, inevitably?

[@TurtleneckPhilosophy]

I can't say for sure, I'm skeptical of anything besides death as being claimed as inevitable.
Also, these were more of the ideas of Hannah Arendt that I was conveying and not my own.

[@feliscorax]

The late Sheldon Wolin suggested as much. He called the phenomenon ‘inverted totalitarianism’.

[@poetradio]

​@@feliscoraxI'll look into that author. Other authors have definitely taken inspiration from Arendt to examine capitalism and the current technocratic system generally as totalitarian. In both cases, control and automatic processes become decisive, and the will of any subject from individuals to societies is made superfluous. If you read French, a nice book is "Hannah Arendt, le totalitarisme et le monde contemporain"

[@1LaOriental]

Mathias Desmet on Mass Formation.

[@1LaOriental]

I was going to mention Sheldon Wolin’s Inverted Totalitarianism.

[@VictorSanchez-kx5hb]

Social Media pretty much is doing that!

[@ashekinmostafa]

SOLITUDE

[@st4rgirrll]

it's sounding eerily like a country in the headlines rn...

[@LCTesla]

you kinda lost me where avoiding solitude lead to increased loneliness
I think what she's getting at is that a fulfilling form of solitude is possible without loneliness but that point requires elaboration

[@richwilliams1863]

Would you say that putting our faith in the power of the market to deliver good outcomes is an ideology or a grand narrative? Sounds like it verges on a religion to me. Maybe the lonely people in the comments want to have a guess?

[@TurtleneckPhilosophy]

I'd say perhaps it's a bit of both, more the former than the latter, though, given the consumerISM that characterizes one of our culture's core values.

[@1LaOriental]

Divide and conquer. USA.

[@erior9662]

You hit the nail on the head. I'm half way through Hannah's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and the parallels to America are frightening, especially with the support of Hamas in our "higher institutions."

[@1LaOriental]

@@erior9662 Good for you! I'm thinking of reading it as well.

[@dwwolf4636]

You mean like Sustainability, Equality and Inclusion ?

[@XinjianDynast]

A Totalitarianistic Society is neither Equal nor Inclusive, please sir what’s your obsession with totalitarianism? (I am assuming u have a pro totalitarianistic stance here, as i perceived from your comment) Are u aligning yourself with the masses and with an ideology which is making u have opinions contrary to ground facts, as pointed out in the video?

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Enter the p£utocratic wolf in democratic fleece mode.

[@bradjohnson4787]

There are thousands upon thousands of dopes in the world!

[@aal-e-ahmadhussain3123]

How is western liberalism not totalitarian?

[@shannonwalker6944]

How do you see the totality in western liberalism. Are people treated as possessions of the state? No. Is there a notion of autonomy and human rights? Yes. Are you not living in a western country?

[@SuperSlik50]

Control of the MSM?

[@rakeshkottu]

Hindutva-RSS-BJP, if anyone is still in doubt.

[@wfpnknw32]

Religion? How were religious governments or states not totalitarian. A central ideology based on unavoidable law of nature. Controlling citizens beliefs and thoughts. Expansive.

[@KarlMarxJaDizia]

Wtf, That's just wrong, I'll gladly debate, but for now, i state that this line of thought is flawed to the maximum power

[@skateforzero357]

I agree. To sum up that loneliness is the root cause of totalitarianism is a vast generalization, thus an erroneous argument

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3:47
Clueless or hypocrite.....

[@polymathmuffin7461]

I admired Arendt philosophy initially, but this lady is unapologetically racist. Just read her published writings on black people and Arabs. As much as we appreciate some of these White European philosophers, we should also expose and discuss their highly privileged and discriminatory views about society and people of colour.

[@TurtleneckPhilosophy]

You bring up a good point. With that aside, I try to deliver the ideas of the person exclusively as they relate to the subject of the video.

[@_Arugula_Salad_]

She’s jewish, not White European. Your comment displays great ignorance

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Wir wollen unseren Kaiser zurück!

[@thelaststraw1467]

how do you propose the nazis and stalin controlled the minuscule events of everyday people? seems to be entirely theoretical stuff coming out of 1984

[@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147]

Wow a J with an opinion, amazing

[@_Arugula_Salad_]

Yes, let’s listen to this creatures lies about National Socialism. Surely it told the truth and never lied

[@imacmill]

Sounds like complete rubbish to me.

[@jackgriffin117]

Believing God is scientific. It’s anthropologically necessary.

[@ernstthalmann4306]

According to...?

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