totalitarianism

Social media: While the public is a place where free individuals have the right, and perhaps also the duty, to participate in a free exchange of opinions, the social is more about herd and control. Are we now faced with a social control that does not invite disagreement and diversity, but only obedience or exclusion? The rise of the social can threaten both freedom and individuality. MODERN TIMES prints here an extract from Einar Øverenget's new book, Intoleransens intog.

ESSAY: How can it be that some politicians can lie as much as they want, like President Trump, and at the same time be perceived as truthful by their voters? We look at how the philosopher Hannah Arendt defined the difference between the traditional and the modern lie, as the difference between hiding and destroying. And how the truth can be faked because one can finger reality.

NEWSPAPER'S MANAGER IN JUNE ABOUT HANNAH ARENDT:

Franco "Bifo" Berardi: The Second Coming

Totalitarianism?: The anarcho-communist critic Franco Berardi believes we have overestimated reason and intelligence as a world-changing force.

Terje Albregtsen: The fascist state of North Korea – an unusual travelogue

: What kind of country is North Korea really, and what do we really know about the North Koreans? 

Ada Ushpiz .: Hannah Arendt – Vita Activa

: New forms of totalitarianism are very relevant at the moment, and thus the philosopher Hannah Arendt.