"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Hannah Arendt
#10 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-12-14 01:26 PM | Reply | Flag: Many Historical Examples Support This
~When the Spanish Inquisition drove away the Sephardic Jews, Muslims, and Moors, they lost a significant portion of their mercantile, philosophical, and medical experts, further cementing feudalism in Catholic Spain and hampering their "Industrial Revolution."
~"Jewish science" was considered inferior by the Third Reich and so America took in their scientists and developed the atomic bombs ahead of the Nazis during WW II.
~The Shah of Iran and the notorious SAVAK wiped out the intellectuals and progressives during his despotic rule, so when he was overthrown, the theocrats were the only ones left to lead the new government.
~Under Dummkopf Trumpf, the US is experiencing a brain drain of academics and scientists heading to the UK, Canada, and the EU, and the Pentagon and USIC has been purged of many experts because they were either LGBTQ, non-MAGA, women, or People of Color.
