Jiang extends Arendt's description of totalitarianism to bureaucracy generally: all governments and bureaucracies tend toward totalitarianism because that is how they justify their existence.
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"two regimes are religious cults they're evil cults and they have three defining characteristics okay the first is that they're removed from reality they..."
"defied reality they fought against reality so even though the nazis were losing the war even though it's clear they cannot defeat the soviet..."
"...And, you know, one of my favorite books is actually Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a fantastic book. Yeah, yeah. In my opinion,..."
"...years planning this out meticulously, right? Because I also read Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil, Ekman in Jerusalem. So, I just assumed in my..."
"...carnage, catastrophe of what, what had happened. Okay? This is Hannah Arendt and she wrote a book called The Origins of Totalitarianism. It is..."
"...Okay? This is Karl Popper. And Karl Popper is like Hannah Arendt, a European Jew who escaped the devastation of the Holocaust and the..."
"...Kant, but you have also many other great thinkers, including Hannah Arendt, who was a Jewish philosopher. And who was considered one of the..."
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