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Gypsi

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Really interesting article - not on bees
« on: May 30, 2015, 11:12:44 am »
Make a pot of coffee before taking a look, but you won't need reading glasses, the print is large.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/chris-hedges-americas-mania-positive-think-may-be-our-downfall
Quote from about half way down.

"This is Hannah Arendt’s central point in “Eichmann in Jerusalem.” Technocratic human beings are spiritually dead. They are capable of anything, no matter how heinous, because they do not reflect upon or question the ultimate goal. “The longer one listened to him,” Arendt writes of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann on trial, “the more obvious it became that his inability to speak was closely connected with an inability to think, namely, to think from the standpoint of somebody else. No communication was possible with him, not because he lied but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words and presence of others, and hence against reality as such."