The intellectual who lives hard and makes a fuss

Jalyn 2022-04-23 07:04:05

According to the movie's psychoanalysis of the protagonist, in order to suppress Heidegger's harm to her, she subconsciously raised the status of "thought" in her personality to hide her pain. Specifically, the crime is reduced by believing that war criminals have no "thoughts", then interpreting their own repression as academic research, interpreting opponents as people without "thoughts", and finally transferring the evil to the Jewish leaders to achieve a closed loop. This is the normal response of normal people to being hurt, and it reminds us not to make the mistake of "wisdom enough to refuse advice, words enough to cover up wrong".

The crowd is like a blind man touching an elephant, no one knows what he is doing, just living the daily life of an intellectual, it is just the wind on the water and can't make any change, whether it is for her or others. Fortunately, there are a lot of ironic and fussing stories left.

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Hannah Arendt quotes

  • Heinrich Blücher: Dearest. Don't cry.

    Hannah Arendt: I spoke to the doctor. He said you only have a fifty percent chance.

    Heinrich Blücher: Don't forget the other fifty percent.

  • Hans Jonas: But Eichmann is a monster. And when I say monster, I don't mean Satan. You don't need to be smart or powerful to behave like a monster.

    Hannah Arendt: You're being too simplistic. What's new about the Eichmann phenomenon is that there are so many just like him. He's a terrifyingly normal human being.