I am a French person that has a lot of trouble understanding English. Yet your video is clear and I understood every piece of information perfectly. Good job !
I got my philosophy diploma this year, and political philosophy was the most interesting thing I've learned. Arendt's theory was always interesting to me, but I never got to dive to deep into the subject. This video is very interesting, thank you!
That mass mindedness around an ideology also represents the image of an archetype of the collective unconscious, and in that understanding you find the solution - become more conscious/individuate. The more who do the less destructive the outcome.
Thanks for this helpful overview. I wonder what Arendt would think of social media / smartphone addiction as a means by which technology companies exploit feelings of loneliness in order to maximize algorithmically driven ad revenue.
Excellent summation. I’m attending a weekly online reading through of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism. Organized by Roger Berkowitz of the Arendt center at BARD college. You’re very succinct with some of the major themes. We’re up to the Totalitarian Movement. With regard to Lonliness/Solitude, we haven’t come across that yet. Perhaps it’s up ahead. I’m happy to hear her thoughts on the dynamic between the two. I think it’s well established that solitude is healthy and fulfilling, whereas lonliness is unhealthy and empty. I’m struck by how much Arendt’s thinking on the need for the individual to be part of the mass is in line with her contemporary Elias Canetti, in his major work, Crowds and Power. He explores the need to join from a more visceral perspective. He won the Noble Prize for literature for the book which took him 20’years to write.
Also the collective loneliness results in a society with people without a sense of belonging and love for their community, so they will not be willing to fight the power, and totalitarian regime will be able to take hold. Any opposition to the regime requires some risks and sacrifices in the name of something greater. "Lonely" people are more likely to just fend for themselves and keep their heads down. Source: living in Russia
hold on, people are less and less connected nowadays. We are feeling more lonely whatsoever. And isn't breaking all social connections the main drive of captalism? Every social identity is slowly getting reduced to only one identity, a buyer. Are you saying we are heading towards totalitarianism, inevitably?
I can't say for sure, I'm skeptical of anything besides death as being claimed as inevitable. Also, these were more of the ideas of Hannah Arendt that I was conveying and not my own.
@@feliscoraxI'll look into that author. Other authors have definitely taken inspiration from Arendt to examine capitalism and the current technocratic system generally as totalitarian. In both cases, control and automatic processes become decisive, and the will of any subject from individuals to societies is made superfluous. If you read French, a nice book is "Hannah Arendt, le totalitarisme et le monde contemporain"
you kinda lost me where avoiding solitude lead to increased loneliness I think what she's getting at is that a fulfilling form of solitude is possible without loneliness but that point requires elaboration
Does Arendt equate tie totalitarian "truer reality" to the religions of the world? If so it would be hard to explain why totalitarianism appeared only in 20th century.
The better term for "government by the best" is meritocracy, not aristocracy, as meritocracy refers to a system where individuals advance based on their abilities and achievements, rather than their social status or family background, which defines aristocracy.
"The problem of finding a collection of wise men, and leaving the responsibility of government to them is an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy" (Aristotle paraphrased by Bertrand Russell)
Would you say that putting our faith in the power of the market to deliver good outcomes is an ideology or a grand narrative? Sounds like it verges on a religion to me. Maybe the lonely people in the comments want to have a guess?
I'd say perhaps it's a bit of both, more the former than the latter, though, given the consumerISM that characterizes one of our culture's core values.
You hit the nail on the head. I'm half way through Hannah's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and the parallels to America are frightening, especially with the support of Hamas in our "higher institutions."
Religion? How were religious governments or states not totalitarian. A central ideology based on unavoidable law of nature. Controlling citizens beliefs and thoughts. Expansive.
I admired Arendt philosophy initially, but this lady is unapologetically racist. Just read her published writings on black people and Arabs. As much as we appreciate some of these White European philosophers, we should also expose and discuss their highly privileged and discriminatory views about society and people of colour.
How do you see the totality in western liberalism. Are people treated as possessions of the state? No. Is there a notion of autonomy and human rights? Yes. Are you not living in a western country?
@@aal-e-ahmadhussain3123 You confuse the people with the state right now. I think what you trynna say it how is the *future* not going to be ingsoc 2.0. Our current, especially leftist, youth is - lonely, isolated, and has full loyality to ideology.
@@ytcmbt2505 not quite. Even in the western modern state people can only say what is superficially diverse. As soon as you say things which are calling for substantial diversity, the state deems it to be a threat. The Prevent laws in the UK are a great example of this. One must examine these things beyond the superficial.
A Totalitarianistic Society is neither Equal nor Inclusive, please sir what’s your obsession with totalitarianism? (I am assuming u have a pro totalitarianistic stance here, as i perceived from your comment) Are u aligning yourself with the masses and with an ideology which is making u have opinions contrary to ground facts, as pointed out in the video?
I disagree. My experience is there seems to be an "additional" presence, an external push. An outside attendee. An actuality. Not fringe old ancient tales , nor a myth. A force to be reckoned with. Subtle, enormously effective, the incredible horror is sponsored, given an assistance, a voice. There are some things beyond the grasp of humans. You do not have all the puzzle peices. This I know. Your immortal, and require faith, or if not vigilant become a monster. The sheer historical scope of incomprehensible inhuman cruelty is beyond the capacity of a human, an unnatural paranormal phenomenon door is opened. We call hell. Visit, sin, bow to the darkness, and the biblical old testament God condemns, you will never leave.
No, Arendts view on totalitarianism shows she was never a part of a political movement, but still wanted to be a political philosopher. Look at ANC and Nelson Mandela, who decided to fight back after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. It meant that they started a gerilla Army and became ”totalitarian” against the boers? The same goes for Lenin after the Bloody Sunday 1905, when the tsar troops killed 1000 peaceful striking people. The bolsheviks then became ”totalitarian” against the tsarist mililtary? And there were 2 competing totalitarian movements? Such an analysis shows that Arendt knew nothing about social movements, and nothing about politics. It’s an outsiders view of things happening far from your own comfortable life.
I am a French person that has a lot of trouble understanding English. Yet your video is clear and I understood every piece of information perfectly. Good job !
❤Hannah Arendt explains the current March to totalitarianism ❤
No she doesn't. Read losurdo's critiques
I needed to write an essay about totalitarianism in my uni, and this video helped me a lot. Thank you so much!
The unvax should lose their job, their liberty. Easier to understand the fake plandemic
6months later and this is sounding eerily like my country now…
😬...which country?
I’m sure we can guess
I got my philosophy diploma this year, and political philosophy was the most interesting thing I've learned. Arendt's theory was always interesting to me, but I never got to dive to deep into the subject. This video is very interesting, thank you!
great summary of my univeristy lecture
subscribed !
That mass mindedness around an ideology also represents the image of an archetype of the collective unconscious, and in that understanding you find the solution - become more conscious/individuate. The more who do the less destructive the outcome.
Thanks for this helpful overview. I wonder what Arendt would think of social media / smartphone addiction as a means by which technology companies exploit feelings of loneliness in order to maximize algorithmically driven ad revenue.
Marshal McLuhan, The medium (smartphones) is the massage.
Excellent summation. I’m attending a weekly online reading through of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism. Organized by Roger Berkowitz of the Arendt center at BARD college.
You’re very succinct with some of the major themes. We’re up to the Totalitarian Movement.
With regard to Lonliness/Solitude, we haven’t come across that yet. Perhaps it’s up ahead. I’m happy to hear her thoughts on the dynamic between the two. I think it’s well established that solitude is healthy and fulfilling, whereas lonliness is unhealthy and empty.
I’m struck by how much Arendt’s thinking on the need for the individual to be part of the mass is in line with her contemporary Elias Canetti, in his major work, Crowds and Power. He explores the need to join from a more visceral perspective. He won the Noble Prize for literature for the book which took him 20’years to write.
Also the collective loneliness results in a society with people without a sense of belonging and love for their community, so they will not be willing to fight the power, and totalitarian regime will be able to take hold. Any opposition to the regime requires some risks and sacrifices in the name of something greater. "Lonely" people are more likely to just fend for themselves and keep their heads down.
Source: living in Russia
When truth becomes subjective.....
My truth
Excellent piece of content. It helped me for a research for high school and it was a good way to understand my subject. Thank you very much!
Glad it helped your research!
what a great video with such edits and visuals!
thanks for making this Instructive content❤
Excellent video, very easy to follow along and understand. Thanks for your effort.
This is really solid 🤌
good stuff !!
What's the background music at 5:09...sorry, brilliant video as well I love The Origins of Totalitarianism 😅
hold on, people are less and less connected nowadays. We are feeling more lonely whatsoever. And isn't breaking all social connections the main drive of captalism? Every social identity is slowly getting reduced to only one identity, a buyer. Are you saying we are heading towards totalitarianism, inevitably?
I can't say for sure, I'm skeptical of anything besides death as being claimed as inevitable.
Also, these were more of the ideas of Hannah Arendt that I was conveying and not my own.
The late Sheldon Wolin suggested as much. He called the phenomenon ‘inverted totalitarianism’.
@@feliscoraxI'll look into that author. Other authors have definitely taken inspiration from Arendt to examine capitalism and the current technocratic system generally as totalitarian. In both cases, control and automatic processes become decisive, and the will of any subject from individuals to societies is made superfluous. If you read French, a nice book is "Hannah Arendt, le totalitarisme et le monde contemporain"
Mathias Desmet on Mass Formation.
I was going to mention Sheldon Wolin’s Inverted Totalitarianism.
you kinda lost me where avoiding solitude lead to increased loneliness
I think what she's getting at is that a fulfilling form of solitude is possible without loneliness but that point requires elaboration
This is great man
Because he perpetuates lies?
Social Media pretty much is doing that!
Thank you!
More people should read Arendt..
Have her book on this.
Does Arendt equate tie totalitarian "truer reality" to the religions of the world? If so it would be hard to explain why totalitarianism appeared only in 20th century.
Interesting.
The better term for "government by the best" is meritocracy, not aristocracy, as meritocracy refers to a system where individuals advance based on their abilities and achievements, rather than their social status or family background, which defines aristocracy.
True.
"The problem of finding a collection of wise men, and leaving the responsibility of government to them is an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy" (Aristotle paraphrased by Bertrand Russell)
Great
Chopin really drives the point home
Didn't she say Zionism was also totalitarianism?
it's sounding eerily like a country in the headlines rn...
SOLITUDE
Would you say that putting our faith in the power of the market to deliver good outcomes is an ideology or a grand narrative? Sounds like it verges on a religion to me. Maybe the lonely people in the comments want to have a guess?
I'd say perhaps it's a bit of both, more the former than the latter, though, given the consumerISM that characterizes one of our culture's core values.
To me it sounds like a major leap of misguided faith.
It comes from monotheism
Divide and conquer. USA.
You hit the nail on the head. I'm half way through Hannah's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" and the parallels to America are frightening, especially with the support of Hamas in our "higher institutions."
@@erior9662 Good for you! I'm thinking of reading it as well.
@@erior9662 The influence that Zionism and the Holocaust has in the US is more frightening.
Enter the p£utocratic wolf in democratic fleece mode.
He completely misunderstood and misrepresented Plato.
Hindutva-RSS-BJP, if anyone is still in doubt.
Religion? How were religious governments or states not totalitarian. A central ideology based on unavoidable law of nature. Controlling citizens beliefs and thoughts. Expansive.
White Barbara Harris Susan Smith Paul
3:09 🎯 for maga fascism
3:57 🎯🎯🎯🎯 so on point for maga fascism
Control of the MSM?
I admired Arendt philosophy initially, but this lady is unapologetically racist. Just read her published writings on black people and Arabs. As much as we appreciate some of these White European philosophers, we should also expose and discuss their highly privileged and discriminatory views about society and people of colour.
You bring up a good point. With that aside, I try to deliver the ideas of the person exclusively as they relate to the subject of the video.
She’s jewish, not White European. Your comment displays great ignorance
@@TurtleneckPhilosophyI appreciate your approach.
There are thousands upon thousands of dopes in the world!
Wir wollen unseren Kaiser zurück!
Ideology sounds similar to gaslighting.
How is western liberalism not totalitarian?
How do you see the totality in western liberalism. Are people treated as possessions of the state? No. Is there a notion of autonomy and human rights? Yes. Are you not living in a western country?
Simple: Youre allowed to say what you just said
@@ytcmbt2505 you can say similar things in many other places. No point imagining that you can’t.
@@aal-e-ahmadhussain3123 You confuse the people with the state right now. I think what you trynna say it how is the *future* not going to be ingsoc 2.0. Our current, especially leftist, youth is - lonely, isolated, and has full loyality to ideology.
@@ytcmbt2505 not quite. Even in the western modern state people can only say what is superficially diverse. As soon as you say things which are calling for substantial diversity, the state deems it to be a threat. The Prevent laws in the UK are a great example of this. One must examine these things beyond the superficial.
You mean like Sustainability, Equality and Inclusion ?
A Totalitarianistic Society is neither Equal nor Inclusive, please sir what’s your obsession with totalitarianism? (I am assuming u have a pro totalitarianistic stance here, as i perceived from your comment) Are u aligning yourself with the masses and with an ideology which is making u have opinions contrary to ground facts, as pointed out in the video?
After GW Bush our Elections have become more Akin to Political Auctions!!
What do we call that??
I disagree. My experience is there seems to be an "additional" presence, an external push. An outside attendee. An actuality. Not fringe old ancient tales , nor a myth. A force to be reckoned with. Subtle, enormously effective, the incredible horror is sponsored, given an assistance, a voice. There are some things beyond the grasp of humans. You do not have all the puzzle peices. This I know. Your immortal, and require faith, or if not vigilant become a monster. The sheer historical scope of incomprehensible inhuman cruelty is beyond the capacity of a human, an unnatural paranormal phenomenon door is opened. We call hell. Visit, sin, bow to the darkness, and the biblical old testament God condemns, you will never leave.
how do you propose the nazis and stalin controlled the minuscule events of everyday people? seems to be entirely theoretical stuff coming out of 1984
Timocracy 😂
Wtf, That's just wrong, I'll gladly debate, but for now, i state that this line of thought is flawed to the maximum power
I agree. To sum up that loneliness is the root cause of totalitarianism is a vast generalization, thus an erroneous argument
No, Arendts view on totalitarianism shows she was never a part of a political movement, but still wanted to be a political philosopher. Look at ANC and Nelson Mandela, who decided to fight back after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. It meant that they started a gerilla Army and became ”totalitarian” against the boers? The same goes for Lenin after the Bloody Sunday 1905, when the tsar troops killed 1000 peaceful striking people. The bolsheviks then became ”totalitarian” against the tsarist mililtary? And there were 2 competing totalitarian movements? Such an analysis shows that Arendt knew nothing about social movements, and nothing about politics. It’s an outsiders view of things happening far from your own comfortable life.
Democracy is the will of the majority, not the people as individuals, yours is misleading
Believing God is scientific. It’s anthropologically necessary.
According to...?
Wow a J with an opinion, amazing
Yes, let’s listen to this creatures lies about National Socialism. Surely it told the truth and never lied
Sounds like complete rubbish to me.
hey great work. i am writing a book defending arendt. neoliberal subjectivity is our world. /r/cyberphunk
Incredible load of ...