Historians: He’s a fascist.
Political scientists: He’s a fascist.
His own aides: He’s a fascist.
The Washington Post: We don't take sides.
Samantha Rose Hill
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Samantha Rose Hill
@Samantharhill
Books: Hannah Arendt and What Remains
Representation: The Wylie Agency
Writing a book about loneliness.
Substack: samantharosehill.substack.com
Joined August 2008
- "Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
- "Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil." — Hannah Arendt
- At yoga: Guy: What do you do? Me: I work at Bard. Guy: Doing what? Me: I'm the assistant director of the Hannah Arendt Center. Guy: What's a Hannah Arendt? Me: She's a German Jewish political thinker from the 20th century. Guy: So do you like tell her what to do? Me: She's dead.
- An excellent example of the loneliness economy. Technology makes people lonely, then sells them a solution in the form of technology. Endless profit possibility. AI mirrors you. You're being sold back to yourself. It will only increase hyper-individualism and isolation.Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to supplement your real ones: “The average American has 3 friends, but has demand for 15.”
00:00 - "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist." — Hannah Arendt
- "I hate to be so difficult, but I'm afraid the truth is that I am." Hannah Arendt, declining an invitation.
- "Explain why intellectuals can be attracted by a totalitarian ideology." Hannah Arendt's final exam for Contemporary Issues taught at Berkeley in 1955
