Tanya Hannaford, M.Ed
@writingwoman7.bsky.social
Missouri field instructor for English Ed student teachers, wife to a special ed teacher, and mother to a T1 diabetic elementary teacher. Proud Mimi to a granddogter. Trying to write my first novel. MAGA can suck it. Weird dudes in my DMs will be blocked.
"[W]hen human nature is thought of as analogous to the nature of God, the consequences are extraordinary" (212).
May 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"[W]hen human nature is thought of as analogous to the nature of God, the consequences are extraordinary" (212).
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist" (474).
May 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist" (474).
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any" (468).
May 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any" (468).
My expression every time Trump performs more fuquery on our nation.
April 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
My expression every time Trump performs more fuquery on our nation.
Real Christianity, the Jesus edition.
April 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Real Christianity, the Jesus edition.
Wearing with pride. In public. I hope someone razzes me for it because I'm ready.
April 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Wearing with pride. In public. I hope someone razzes me for it because I'm ready.
Read this and be prepared for everything, suddenly, to make perfect sense.
April 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Read this and be prepared for everything, suddenly, to make perfect sense.
Y'all should read this book. It explains Gen-X perfectly.
April 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Y'all should read this book. It explains Gen-X perfectly.
"Like a foreign conqueror, the totalitarian dictator regards the natural and industrial riches of each country, including his own, as a source of looting and a means of preparing the next step of aggressive expansion..... [H]is looting is likely to benefit nobody" (417).
April 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"Like a foreign conqueror, the totalitarian dictator regards the natural and industrial riches of each country, including his own, as a source of looting and a means of preparing the next step of aggressive expansion..... [H]is looting is likely to benefit nobody" (417).
"The only rule of which everybody in a totalitarian state may be sure is that the more visible government agencies are, the less power they carry, and the less is known of the existence of an institution, the more powerful it will ultimately turn out to be" (403).
March 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"The only rule of which everybody in a totalitarian state may be sure is that the more visible government agencies are, the less power they carry, and the less is known of the existence of an institution, the more powerful it will ultimately turn out to be" (403).
Mr. Hegseth,
March 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Mr. Hegseth,
Those who know history will weep. Those who don't will rejoice. The rejoicing is louder, but the weeping is deeper.
March 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Those who know history will weep. Those who don't will rejoice. The rejoicing is louder, but the weeping is deeper.
"This is the use that is made of the old habits of nationalism. We are always ready to be persuaded that we are under threat. While care for our terrain and people and future can be tarnished as socialism, to be swept up in general alarm that impoverishes them all is somehow American" (98).
March 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"This is the use that is made of the old habits of nationalism. We are always ready to be persuaded that we are under threat. While care for our terrain and people and future can be tarnished as socialism, to be swept up in general alarm that impoverishes them all is somehow American" (98).
"Economics from its brutal beginnings has told us that cheapened labor will give its employers a competitive advantage and that costlier labor will drive industries into extinction or into foreign markets. Oddly, even monstrously costly executives seem never to have this effect" (93-94).
March 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"Economics from its brutal beginnings has told us that cheapened labor will give its employers a competitive advantage and that costlier labor will drive industries into extinction or into foreign markets. Oddly, even monstrously costly executives seem never to have this effect" (93-94).
"[W]hether and how we educate people is still a direct reflection of the degree of freedom we expect them to have, or want them to have" (88).
March 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"[W]hether and how we educate people is still a direct reflection of the degree of freedom we expect them to have, or want them to have" (88).
Funny thing about being a terrible person: the stench of your awfulness lasts forever.
March 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Funny thing about being a terrible person: the stench of your awfulness lasts forever.
"We need only allow the spread of learning to see the brilliance potential in humankind " (87).
March 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"We need only allow the spread of learning to see the brilliance potential in humankind " (87).
"The whole hierarchical structure of totalitarian movements...could be described in terms of a curiously varying mixture of gullibility and cynicism with which each member...is expected to react to the changing lying statements of the leaders and the...fiction of the movement" (382).
March 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"The whole hierarchical structure of totalitarian movements...could be described in terms of a curiously varying mixture of gullibility and cynicism with which each member...is expected to react to the changing lying statements of the leaders and the...fiction of the movement" (382).
"Why do religious people so often act as if respect for humankind were contingent on the interpretation of a few verses of Scripture? Does the phrase 'the image of God' not imply a reality that should be manifest to our experience as Christians?" (66).
March 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
"Why do religious people so often act as if respect for humankind were contingent on the interpretation of a few verses of Scripture? Does the phrase 'the image of God' not imply a reality that should be manifest to our experience as Christians?" (66).
Currently reading.
March 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Currently reading.
"To rationalize crude motives is one of the stranger projects of our period, in light of their continuing history of staggering cost" (44).
March 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
"To rationalize crude motives is one of the stranger projects of our period, in light of their continuing history of staggering cost" (44).
Current read. You can hang back, ignore the signs, and even pretend you are one of them, but in the end, it's a mistake to think you can trick fascists into thinking you're an exception to their hate.
March 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Current read. You can hang back, ignore the signs, and even pretend you are one of them, but in the end, it's a mistake to think you can trick fascists into thinking you're an exception to their hate.
