Hannah Arendt's On Power and Violence

Dr Andrew Moore explains a central idea in Hannah Arendt's thought. It's her notions of power and violence which may not be what many think at first. For Arendt, power is an individual's capacity to act in a constructive way in the public realm in which he or she lives. Violence is the capacity of an individual or group to prevent, or violate individuals' right to act. 

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See Elizabeth Lea Vos and Graham Elwood on The CIA and links therein, especially Putin on "Vaccine Dissidents" And The Idea of A Fake Pandemic. The individual's capacity to act depends crucially on being truly oriented in the public sphere, and therein lies the problem we have today:

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See Flying Lotus - Fire is Coming (feat. David Lynch) for some clues about turning brass and iron into bronze and steel. One of my Costa Rican girlfriend's mothers just invited me back to five years indentured labor on her farm.



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