I just showed snippets of Last Unicorn to my student today!!

@catsbetterthanmen.bsky.social

"No communication was possible with him, not because he lied but because he was surrounded by the most reliable of all safeguards against the words and the presence of others, and hence against reality as such." -Hannah Arendt, Banality of Evil

I've been reading a lot of Arendt lately, particularly Banality of Evil.

According to the article, Stewart was reminding viewers that Trump's actions took place within a democratic system that allowed him to commit these atrocities. Using "fascist" as a blanket term removes the significance of what Trump is doing—a word over-used loses meaning.

But how are you supposed to freshly grind the beans like that? We need Doc Brown to whip something up.

That's why we should do some of it from home #shutdown315