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BlancheSplanchnik

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1. Shifting responsibility for the Self to the Bureaucracy.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2020, 02:23 PM

May 2020

Opinions were synchronized; people learned to talk as "we" and not "I" — and the question of personal responsibility was thus shifted to impersonal authorities, says Boll

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Hannah Arendt, 20th C. Philosopher Remains Inspiring Today; The Banality of Evil [View all] appalachiablue May 2020 OP

Shifting responsibility for the Self to the Bureaucracy. BlancheSplanchnik May 2020 #1

It wasn't individuals, they were 'just following orders.' appalachiablue May 2020 #2