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Vita Activa 3x3 inspired by the last point in my thread just now. cc and others interested in Arendtology.
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Conversely, can something that has all the drama of public appearance have none of the historic consequentiality of Arendtian action we correlate it to? Of course. Most politics is in fact like that. Fine, I guess I should make this 3x3 matrix and blog it.
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Arendt I think didn’t realize she was collapsing 2 dimensions into one: doing/seeing-to-be-doing. Or perhaps doing/signaling is the right pair. That’s why her theory has a degeneracy and she only deals with the principal diagonal do/signal pairings.
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I feel like you missed the point of Ozymandias if you think Lincoln and FDR will have permanent effects on history. The pyramids were older to Caesar than Caesar is to us. How many people care who built them?