"On Tyranny." I'm so thankful that success found me later in life, I feel so much more grounded now than when I was younger. I hope you're doing well, spring is coming soon!I very much agree @clio. I just finished a very interesting book that reminded me of the importance of remembering history (in a larger sense )called
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I looked on the internet and found the book you were referring to. I found out he won the Hannah Arendt Prize for political thought. I read Hannah Arendt book: " Three faces of fascism" as a student and it made a huge impression.
Snyder discusses important topics. Reading books and language use for instance. He says:
"In the president’s frame of reference events are only ever bad or sad or mad. With his Dr. Seuss vocabulary, he can present the world as a place of simplistic oppositions, stripped of nuance."
Scary. What I read about this book of Timothy Snyder is reason to order it when I am back in the Netherlands. Thank you for the tip.
Hi, @clio. You're welcome. It sounds like I need to read Hannah's book. Tom Snyder talks a lot about language and symbolism and how it was used in the Trump campaign as well as after the election. It's downright frightening how far we've slipped in just a year, it can happen so fast. We very well may end up coming to the Netherlands soon to live if things get much worse.