| domain | openculture.com |
| summary | Hannah Arendt, in her 1951 *Origins of Totalitarianism*, argued that totalitarian movements exploit a combination of public naiveté and cynicism. She observed that in an increasingly confusing world, people become willing to accept and reject contradictory ideas simultaneously. Totalitarian leaders skillfully utilize this by presenting outlandish claims, and when confronted with evidence of their falsehood, individuals retreat into cynicism, defending the leaders' supposed “tactical cleverness” rather than acknowledging the deception. This tactic, akin to “gaslighting,” systematically dismantles the public’s ability to discern truth from falsehood, effectively rendering them powerless to resist. |
| title | The best free cultural & educational media on the web - Open Culture |
| description | Your guide to FREE educational media. Find thousands of free online courses, audio books, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, movies and more. |
| keywords | free, books, january, december, november, october, september, august, july, june, april, march, february, make, first, fascism, time |
| upstreams |
neatorama.com, themorningnews.org |
| downstreams |
twitter.com, addtoany.com, wikipedia.org, youtube.com, substack.com, kottke.org, nytimes.com, threads.net, bsky.app, toot.community, newyorker.com, museumplantinmoretus.be, pbs.org, cam.ac.uk, archive.org, publicdomainreview.org, slate.com, theguardian.com, about.me |
| nslookup | A 18.204.45.111 |
| created | 2024-02-24 |
| updated | 2026-01-29 |
| summarized | 2026-02-14 |
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