Reading Hannah Arendt late last night

Now that I'm just getting the hang of life this terrible person gets elected President, and a tragedy befalls me.

The type on the social contract gets smaller and smaller, so small I can no longer read it.

The elites in power are accused of separating children from their parents. The elites make bad decision after bad decision. They have no use for books. The Bible they've sworn on is decrepit, as is thinking about the Bible: they have no use for reading. That this person was elected President proves there is no God.

The new social order: one only fits in by agreeing.

To be political is to define the conditions of your own existence. There's always something wrong with the present, that's just the way the present is.

I'm reading Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism. She interests me as much as Moses once interested me.

I see that Arendt's book was written in 1950, the year of my birth.

The 2nd paragraph of her Preface to the first edition of the book reads, "Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest--forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries."