She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.
…she is best known for those dealing with the nature of wealth, power, and evil, as well as politics,…
Her name appears in the names of journals, schools, scholarly prizes, humanitarian prizes, think-tanks, and streets; appears on stamps and monuments; and is attached to other cultural and institutional markers that commemorate her thought. In 1933, Arendt was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo for performing illegal research into antisemitism.
She was stripped of her German citizenship in 1937…
Cluster B Personality Disorders is just medicalized terminology for “evil assholes.”
Too broad of a brush stroke. BPD isn’t as toxic as NPD or ASPD. Even within NPD there are variations of toxicity. Cluster B’s nickname is the “dramatic and erratic” cluster, and some of what falls within there is much more about trauma fallout than evil megalomania.
As someone who was the target of BPD rage for years, I say, from experience, that BPD can be every bit as dangerous and potentially life-destroying as NPD or ASPD.
I stand by what I said.
Maybe not as toxic, but as someone who fell for and dated a girl with BPD (who wasn’t diagnosed until years after we broke up), I can tell you from experience: it’s brutal.
To clarify for anyone reading who doesn’t know the acronym, BPD is Borderline Personality Disorder, not Bipolar Disorder.
Or, to be more charitable, a scientific attempt to understand what it is that makes someone become a clinical asshole, in hopes of “curing” assholes.
A noble, if futile effort.