Twitter Files Thread: The Spies Who Loved Twitter – Matt Taibbi
From FBI to DNI the DNI to “OGA,” the full thread on Twitter and its intelligence partners
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitter-files-thread-the-spies-who
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitter-files-thread-the-spies-who
“The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.”
Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem, Essay on the Banality of Evil.
History has been hidden in our time. Not necessarily the facts of history, as best we know them, but the mere consideration of it. It’s as though a force wants us to believe that all knowledge, and all understanding of human affairs, resides in our epoch. Historic beliefs are, in fact, a product of evil, of white supremacy, or colonialism, or, gaia forbid, Christianity.