In Reply to: That's the confirmation they needed to determine posted by blindness on December 10, 2024 at 18:19:48
Arendt wrote over 70 years ago:
Intellectual, spiritual, and artistic initiative is as dangerous to totalitarianism as the gangster initiative of the mob, and both are more dangerous than mere political opposition. The consistent persecution of every higher form of intellectual activity by the new mass leaders springs from more than their natural resentment against everything they cannot understand. Total domination does not allow for free initiative in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
Trump v2 doesn’t want to take the chance of anyone with actual scientific knowledge pushing back with some crazy liberal agenda like preventing mass death if there is another public health crisis. When measles breaks out he’ll blame wokeness.