How Totalitarianism Is A Total Nightmare (via Hannah Arendt)

Terribly, terribly, terribly, terribly; life is but a dream

Hannah Arendt was a political theorist (philosopher really) who wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism, and barely escaped herself

Life is but a dream. Totalitarianism is, to Hannah Arendt, someone else’s dream invading your body, until it becomes a nightmare. You wake up, screaming, because you are just one of a million heads making up the body of a real-life Leviathan.