Hannah Arendt on PBS: the parallels are almost total.

[scipan]

I'm not that familiar with her but I watched because of the DU people who quoted her in the past and I wanted to learn more about her.

So, (for those like me) she lived through both WW1 and WW2 as an adult and was passionate about philosophy. She was recognized as an important thinker at an early age.

The thing that stood out most to me was her recognition of the lies as essential to Hitler's takeover of the populace. It's not talked about enough IMO with Krasnov. Also, the fact that she was Jewish is essential to her experience.
1 hour 23 minutes . Hope the link works as I have both Passport and the app. It's well worth your time I think, especially if you don't know much about her other than some quotes, like me.

And thank you du for making me curious about her. You are invaluable.

https://www.pbs.org/video/hannah-arendt-facing-tyranny-opk5p9/

[lastlib]

1. It was a pretty good show.

I had read Origins of Totalitarianism in college (45 years ago.....), but really didn't know much about her life beyond that she had fled Nazism in Germany. It was fascinating to learn about her relationship with Martin Heidigger, whose ideas I also encountered in college. Seems she had a very complicated life.

[scipan]

3. Yeah I could never get into Heidegger. He didn't seem to think objective truth was important, only experience.

Not surprised he became a Nazi. But I envy the big ideas that were considered important back then.

I think that science has surpassed philosophy lately, like in the past hundred years, and I'm fine with that.

[elleng]

4. Yes, parallels are almost total.

SAD

[scipan]

5. When will we ever learn. Some of us have...

thanks

[applegrove]

6. Damn I slept through it. Video doesn't wotlrk for me. I'll have to go searching.

[scipan]

10. try this:

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hannah-arendt-documentary/36135/

[applegrove]

12. Does not work. I'm in Canada and we often don't get videos

from the USA.

[usonian]

7. Why not? They're following the fascist playbook line by line.

[IbogaProject]

8. The GOP are Nazis

Not figuratively but the GOP brought almost 80,000 Nazi families in 1953 at the start of them being back in the White House after a 20 year absence. I know as I had a history teacher who's dad was Admaral of the flag ship of the Nazi (German) navy. He got to be a Senate page at the age of 16 in 1953. Keating from the S&L crisis had Nazi parents too.

[iemanja]

9. She's a leading historian on totalitarianism.

[Beastly Boy]

11. The parallels are frightening