When in Amsterdam on a train (Eastside), you can see this great display at the Kossmanndejong office. 
And guess what: it belongs with my zine on despair! Download, print, fold, trim, share! https://goedmaken.org/index.php/2025/03/17/be-desperate-and-talk-about-it/ #arendt #ethics
"The mass murder in Gaza outlines a pattern, a set of tools and measures of extermination, subjugation, and expulsion".
"What is it about genocide that Global-North governments find so valuable and attractive that they protect its screamingly criminal substance and application, even at the cost of completely ruining their standing with everyone else on the planet?"
It sets a precedent "to subdue the cities of the Global South (and the poor in general").
"Why?
"The general reason is obvious, and while there would be much to say about it, let’s just summarize it here: The West is in decline in a severely crisis-ridden world (it has produced most or even all of these crises, but let’s pass over that irony for now). Its “elites” have decided not to adjust constructively – which would be entirely possible by compromise, cooperation, and sharing – but instead […] they will fight for what they hubristically see as their “garden”."
Tarik Cyril Amar (2024) https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/the-gaza-method
"When an abject lack of compassion has the redeeming feature of being accompanied by a blunt lack of sophistication": https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/germanys-annalena-baerbock-the-debility-0b5 
The only cure against a totalitarian movement is a Real People Movement. Let's use our despair as FUEL! #ethics #arendt
Blog and zine: https://goedmaken.org/index.php/2025/03/17/be-desperate-and-talk-about-it/
Iedereen morgen op het werk: dit 30 keer printen en overal verspreiden graag. Vooral in de buurt van koffie apparaten! Hoera voor de Echte Mensen Beweging! #arendt #ethiek https://goedmaken.org/index.php/2025/03/05/wanhoop-is-goed/
Ok, we're at #Weber's concept of #patrimonialism, we don't need to go to #Arendt's #totalitarianism (yet) to analyse the #UZA. That's good, ain't it?
"In its governmental guise, patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/
Hannah #Arendt und ihr "Antisemitismus. Imperialismus. Totalirismus." ist das erste #Buch , welches sich Opa in #EinfacherSprache wünscht.
@nazgul
The banality of evil
In addition to my earlier post on the importance of #empathy by #hannaharendt , #arendt also ‘coined’ #thebanalityofevil . Not ‘evil’ as we commonly define, but carried out by ‘normal people’ in a #totalitarianSystem losing the characteristics we would normally recognise as evil. The #usa is rapidly evolving in such a system under #trump. Recognize the systems and speak out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Km0LQCK-9I
Totalitarianism
"The ideal subject of totalitarianism is ...
people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt : L’individualisme économique contre la responsabilité collective 
Découvrez comment la philosophe met en garde contre les dérives d'une société centrée sur l'intérêt personnel. #Philosophie #Politique #Arendt Hannah Arendt : Les périls de l'individualisme économique Hannah Arendt, philosophe majeure du 20e siècle, nous alerte sur les dangers d'une société privilégiant l'intérêt personnel au détriment de la responsabilité collective. Sa pensée, toujours…
Food for thought in this context:
“In Lithuania, and many other European countries, it is still very difficult to talk about conscription – people believe that someone else will sacrifice themselves for their homeland in times of crisis. Why should it be me? How can the state presume that it has the right to take me out of my life, and to ‘ruin my career’? […] The prevalence of this egocentric worldview confirms that we are losing the sense of positive freedom – not freedom from, but freedom to, freedom to do something meaningful, to care for this common world of ours, to act responsibly, to build and creatively project our future. […] In this context, it is worth returning to the moral and political philosophy of two seminal thinkers of the twentieth century: Hannah Arendt and Jan Patočka.”
https://www.eurozine.com/ukraine-and-the-future-of-post-heroic-europe/
Heute Abend #Filmabend im #CollegiumAcademicum
Hannah #Arendt
aus der Filmreihe "Zukunft oder Vergangenheit?"
https://keinschrittnachrechts.de/event/extern-filmabend-hannah-arendt
#Rassismus bei Hannah #Arendt - Ohne Bewusstsein für den Widerstand der Kolonisierten.
#HannahArendt erforschte zeitlebens, wie totalitäre Regime Menschen entrechten. Manche ihrer Schriften sind nicht frei von rassistischen Mustern. Wie passt das zusammen?
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/rassismus-bei-hannah-arendt-blind-fuer-den-widerstand-der-100.html #podcast
Outsourcing moralischer Verantwortung - Die Banalität des Bösen ist allgegenwärtig.
#HannahArendt #Arendt #Podcast
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/outsourcing-moralischer-verantwortung-die-banalitaet-des-100.html
Die post-truth Faschisten (und jetzt auch die CDU) wissen sehr genau wie sie das ausnutzen.
Besonders tagesschau.de war in den letzten Tagen eher ein Beispiel, wie man nicht berichten sollte.
Das alles ist nicht neu. 1951 schrieb Hannah #Arendt:
"Das ideale Subjekt eines totalitären Systems ist nicht der überzeugte #Nazioder der überzeugte Kommunist, sondern Menschen, für die der Unterschied zwischen Fakten und Fiktion und der Unterschied zwischen wahr und falsch nicht länger existiert.“ 3
We zijn ons vermogen tot handelen verloren aan big tech: We werden een verdienmodel en de aarde een bron die je mag uitputten voor je eigen gewin.
Om het geweld waarmee we allemaal fysiek en mentaal gekoloniseerd worden terug te dringen moeten we misschien maar eens wat gaan slopen. En als eerste het zelfbeeld van de broligarcen. #ethiek #arendt
https://goedmaken.org/index.php/2025/01/13/we-zijn-ons-vermogen-tot-handelen-verloren-aan-big-tech/ @marleenstikker @waag
In this excerpt, Hannah Arendt highlighted how while "indulging us in the hysterical outpouring of their feelings of guilt", German generations after WWII wouldn't even dare to criticise the older generation whose participation in the genocide of Jewish people in Europe was very real.
After all, it could hurt their career.
She denounces that proclaimed guilt as "artificial", "almost pleasant".
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In this excerpt, Hannah Arendt highlighted how while "indulging us in the hysterical outpouring of their feelings of guilt", German generations after WWII wouldn't even dare to criticise the older generation whose participation in the genocide of Jewish people in Europe was very real.
After all, it could hurt their career.
She denounces that proclaimed guilt as "artificial", "almost pleasant".
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!["Martin Buber called [Eichmnann's] execution ‘a mistake of historic proportions’ because it enabled ‘many young Germans to escape their feelings of guilt’ - an argument that eerily echoed Eichmann's own ideas on the matter, though Buber probably didn't know that he had wanted to hang himself in public in order to lighten the burden of guilt that weighed on the shoulders of German youth.
It is astonishing that Buber, a man who was not only eminent but also remarkably intelligent, did not see how these feelings of guilt, around which so much publicity has been made, are necessarily artificial.
It is almost pleasant to feel guilty when you have done nothing wrong: how noble!
But it is rather difficult and certainly depressing to admit guilt and repent. On all sides and in all professions, German youth is surrounded by men in prominent positions, or in positions of public office, who could not be more guilty, but who feel nothing of the kind."](https://static.mamot.fr/media_attachments/files/113/474/746/296/810/943/original/d5b05d31ef696a98.png "\"Martin Buber called [Eichmnann's] execution ‘a mistake of historic proportions’ because it enabled ‘many young Germans to escape their feelings of guilt’ - an argument that eerily echoed Eichmann's own ideas on the matter, though Buber probably didn't know that he had wanted to hang himself in public in order to lighten the burden of guilt that weighed on the shoulders of German youth.
It is astonishing that Buber, a man who was not only eminent but also remarkably intelligent, did not see how these feelings of guilt, around which so much publicity has been made, are necessarily artificial.
It is almost pleasant to feel guilty when you have done nothing wrong: how noble!
But it is rather difficult and certainly depressing to admit guilt and repent. On all sides and in all professions, German youth is surrounded by men in prominent positions, or in positions of public office, who could not be more guilty, but who feel nothing of the kind.\"")
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In this excerpt, Hannah Arendt highlighted how while "indulging us in the hysterical outpouring of their feelings of guilt", German generations after WWII wouldn't even dare to criticise the older generation whose participation in the genocide of Jewish people in Europe was very real.
After all, it could hurt their career.
She denounces that proclaimed guilt as "artificial"/"almost pleasant".
