Edward Teller was the bad guy! Hannah Arendt: Her analysis is closer to reality. I remain suspicious of objective truth but the reason I want to nail him to the cross is because of his characterization of Nazis/Antifa and New Atheists/Fundamentalists as being the same. If he had just said "be suspicious of ideology" I'd be okay with that. But as soon as you make statements about the overall political climate and act like you're somehow distant from it in a way that is cliche and been beaten to death by 100 other media personalities it's blatantly obvious your analysis hasn't come from any type of broader epistemological inquiry. It's come from media. It's come from the most simplistic and base refusal of the system. Followed by stroking your chin for the next 79 minutes while the rest of the civilized community sighs in the background.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 (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.
