I strongly recommend reading Hannah Arendtβs βThe Origins of Totalitarianismβ. Itβs a substantial book, but deeply insightful and more relevant today than ever.
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Two Prison Systems
Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors, is serving her sentence in a minimum-security βClub Fedβ prison in Texas β with recreational activities and relatively comfortable conditions.
For many other inmates in the United States β especially those without wealth or influence β such prison conditions would be unthinkable.
That someone convicted of these crimes is placed in such an environment raises serious questions about extreme inequality in the U.S. justice system.
Sources: The Washington Post, The Daily Beast
Imagine for a moment you were born in the year 1900. At age 14, World War I breaks out, ending at age 18, leaving 22 million dead.
Shortly after, a global pandemic appears, the Spanish flu, which kills 50 million people. And you survive, at 20 years.
At 29, you survive the global economic crisis that starts with the fall of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and hunger.
At age 33, Nazism comes to power.
When you're 39, World War II starts and ends when you're 45, with 60 million dead.
At 52 years old, the Korean War begins.
When you're 64 years old, the Vietnam War starts and ends when you're 75.
Then a person born in 1985 thinks that their grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, not knowing that they have survived several wars and disasters.
