I’m so glad I clicked through to the excerpt. I’m going to read that… ugh things like this resonate in such a spooky way. Diversions on diversions…
" The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting . It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had."
