This chapter traces the shift in social belonging from tribal identities to individualism to the state's disruption of traditional community associations, examining the decentralized power structures in the Middle Ages and the modern state's centralized power. It also discusses intellectual criticisms of traditional community institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries in favor of autonomy and freedom.
…totalitarian domination as a form of government is new in that it… bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Many people have amnesia regarding that fact that a mere few […]
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