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…
and in public health, almost the opposite has been proven for like a century+
No part of fascist ideology has any basis in reality.
it aspires to solipsism, and material reality is the enemy, but also, they do tend to onboard with something at least tangentially related to real grievances like ‘you haven’t kept up with the world and don’t really understand the way a lot of people understand themselves and each other these days’ or ‘there is a plague and that is scary’, it’s just that the next and every subsequent step is something like ‘be one with the plague, become the fear #darkknight#batman’ and/or ‘and your daughter likes kissing other girls because the jewish space laser made her gay, so we must #exterminatethejews’.
fun fact about the ‘jewish’ space laser: the only attempt anyone ever made to build a world dominating (network of) space laser(s) was their guy back in the 80s. i’d bet money some part of the idea was a leftover from werner von braun.