Progression of Nature

Billgar · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:31 pm Post subject: Progression of Nature

Just found a quote in one of my readings that I thought i should share.

"If it is the law of nature to eliminate everything that is harmful and unfit-to-live, it would mean the end of nature itself if new categories of the harmful and unfit-to-live could not be found."

-Hannah Arendt

Beanbaker · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject:

Ha, I get it! Did you find this in a textbook or just some book you're reading for the entertainment? To me it sounds like it has to do with humanity in a way.

Billgar · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject:

Its from "The Politics of Totalitarianism" from my lecture class titled "Surveillance and Visual Culture."

Beanbaker · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject:

I can't really see how that would fit into totalitarianism, I was thinking it was about weapons, but even reading the wiki article on the book doesn't seem to clear it up.... (you got me too interested now)

Billgar · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

The book is so intense and the English in it is very complicated, it gives me head aches. But in essence it is speaking about governmental systems that are deemed by history as unfit-to-live, and how something like the Nazi regime, which was a horrific event, still stands the purpose of being a part of defining what is a "lawful" society.