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“When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it.”

Inspirational Feeling Erin Mccarthy

Book:Jacked Up

Source: Jacked Up

“In an article titled "The Ex-Communists," she analyzed how these McCarthy loyalists had simply switched allegiances. Instead of demanding communism as they had earlier, they now called for unconditional loyalty and cooperation in denouncing others for the sake of freedom and democracy. They still had a cause, just a different one from before. The new cause, the right cause, she continued, had a totalitarian catch to it. By turning democracy "into a cause," something that would arrive in the future and to which the present must be devoted, the present became unfree. The idea of futurity destroyed the present moment. How could one escape this destruction of the present by fear of the future....?”

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Book:Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

Source: Unlearning with Hannah Arendt

“And so, with all due respect to the office you hold, Mr. President, the “enemy of the people” is not the press. It is you.”

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Book:Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

Source: Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy