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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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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..."
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"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..."
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"...carnage, catastrophe of what, what had happened. Okay? This is Hannah Arendt and she wrote a book called The Origins of Totalitarianism. It is..."
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"...Okay? This is Karl Popper. And Karl Popper is like Hannah Arendt, a European Jew who escaped the devastation of the Holocaust and the..."
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"...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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A source-grounded reading of bureaucracy as institutional death: university comfort replaces education, administrators turn complaints into jobs, managers feed on organizations like parasites, and the only exit left to students is real knowledge outside...
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