The first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man. This [is] done, on the one hand, by putting certain categories of people outside the protection of the law and forcing at the same time, through the instrument of denationalization, the nontotalitarian world into recognition of lawlessness; it [is] done, on the other hand, by placing the concentration camp outside the normal penal system, and by selecting its inmates outside the juridical procedure in which a definite crime entails a predictable penalty.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
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Rather prophetic, I would say. Forced ignorance, servitude and subjugation, give the ignorance-is-bliss modality a substantive shove.
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