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Please read Hannah Arendt's incredible book, Origin of Totalarinism and see how close we really are

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Succinct, straightforward and insightful. And appropriately alarming. Thank you for writing this, Micha.

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Thank you very much, Steve. These are indeed straightforward, not very original observations of the pandemic and pre-pandemic years. I hope the second part (Part 2) contains a bit more analysis. :)

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The second part most certainly does!

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Well-summarized and concise. Bravo, and thank you. It will be interesting to see how many friends and family members will become angry at me for sending this to them. I am actually interested in understanding the source of their anger (and at this point could give zero f***s)

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Thanks so much! I can really empathise with what you say about your family members. I have yet to hear anyone in my wider family regret or question their support for the pandemic response.

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Great essay with many straightforward observations. Especially being German myself many of the named examples about Germany's response to covid really hit home. I feel like most people around here just "closed the chapter covid" and are still stuck in their perspective on things from 2020/21/22 - whenever they stopped caring and following the narrative, never having cought up on the development of things and never having adjusted their perspective on retrospect.

Looking forward to reading part II now.

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Thank you, Dani. Danke dir. :)

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