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GingerAntics
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This is between a pick and a so-so for me, but manages to come down just this side of pick. This is a hard book to get through when our country is currently a flaming mess. Arendt also has some problematic views on race that are clearly due to when she was alive. One would hope, were she alive now, those views would be different.
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GingerAntics There is still some validity to her views on totalitarianism and her perspective of the last time hate ruled the world. Worth reading when in the right head space, but know some of this is going to anger you and even sound white supremacist in places. Stonebridge does a good job at calling out those points and adding her own updates to the ideas for today.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld
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kspenmoll Perfect review!!!! 6d
GingerAntics @kspenmoll this one was a struggle for me. I almost DNF‘d a few times. 6d
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This is such a cool detail. It‘s also unsurprising. Someone spoke about and from a perspective he did not have, so he sought out that perspective. Plus, he reads. He reads voluntarily and happily. I‘m not sure the current resident of the Oval Office knows the difference between a stack of papers and a book. Both are to be ignored and are of no interest to him. Maybe he can identify the book as something to put his Diet Coke can on. 🙄

Bookwomble Diet Coke? I thought he drinks bleach to stave off the 'rona! 😄 5d
GingerAntics @Bookwomble that‘s just once a day, then he washes it down with Diet Coke! 🤣😂🤣 5d
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Oh really? No only have the former confederate states/the former traitor states been ignoring it since the founding of the nation, they are actively seeking to force their chosen ignorance upon the rest of us.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld

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Sometimes, I feel like social media is the number one thing that is burning the world to the ground (socially of course).
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld

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This needs to be posted on every door, of every building, of every university in the United States immediately.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld

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I‘ve got to disagree with Arendt. There is not a new kind of evil, a special, radical kind of evil that started with the Nazis. Every human being is fully capable of such evil. It is our better nature that allows us to override any desire to be evil and choose to be good people. When one starts to believe that this evil can benefit one‘s better nature is when these atrocities happen.

GingerAntics These are not monsters. They are not special. These are humans that chose to do evil. #LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld #evil #humanity 6d
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I‘m beginning to question if it EVER landed here.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld #America #Freedom

kspenmoll 💙 That is the question isn‘t it? (edited) 1w
GingerAntics @kspenmoll I suppose it is. We like to wax poetic about freedom around here, but it‘s never been true freedom. It‘s always been freedom for the select few. 1w
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I loved this part. So much for public happiness. Now those in power think happiness is frivolous and wasteful because it doesn‘t make any of them money.
#LyndseyStonebridge #HannahArendt #WeAreFreeToChangeTheWorld #revolution #freedom #publichappiness #publicfreedom #KellonyaaniKellon #JinJiyanAzadi #SlavaUkraini #ICantBreathe

kspenmoll This is another wonderful thought provoking quote. 1w
GingerAntics @kspenmoll for all the founding father worship conservatives have become known for, this would be radical to them. Then again, let‘s be honest, the founding fathers were WAY more radical than most conservatives will admit (if they even know). 1w
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