On Governments' Power in the Public Sphere


More seriously:


I think the problem all over the world is the failure of national governments and the private sector to maintain the public sphere which is the only context in which any diplomacy can be said to be meaningful.

This video is a follow-up to Lee Camp's analysis of American involvement in the explosion in Lebanon earlier this month: https://youtu.be/cEcRuzBZTRQ

Hannah Arendt on political associations:


Hannah Arendt on power in the public sphere:


Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism:


Hannah Arendt on pathological political associations (and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Colombia University student demonstrations against Department of Defense control of American University research):

The above ought to be enough to explain why I still support Donald Trump.





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