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Charles Clemens's avatar

I am finding THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TOTALITARIANISM to be a fascinating and frightening book. I only wonder if Dr. Desmet felt he had to write it because Hannah Arendt's seminal work is more than 60 years old and people have forgotten about it.

That being said, literally every page of the book resonates with me.

I suppose I am an outlier among conservatives: I've debated for decades with my fundamentalist Christian brother about the benefits of suicide once life becomes too painful, humiliating, or intolerable. In the book FINAL EXIT, Derek Humphrey states that the best way to painlessly remove yourself from the world is by replacing oxygen with helium and putting your head in a plastic bag. Mattias envisions a totalitarian society that uses helium filled rooms to destroy its enemies. My only conclusion is that it beats Sarin Gas by a mile.

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Benjamin's Newsletter's avatar

It's only a conspiracy theory if people refuse to look at the evidence.

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