August 13th, 2007

"The point, however, is that no matter whether racism appears as the natural result of a catastrophe or as the conscious instrument for bringing it about, it is always closely tied to contempt for labor, hatred of territorial limitation, general rootlessness, and an activistic faith in one's own divine chosenness."
- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (p 257)

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