Hannah Maxine Arendt and Martin Horst Windust Heidegger Loeffler

[Fiona Shnapple]

Why is Maxine attracted to Horst? For starters, once you get past the
Nazi Name (BE 114-115), he looks like Sterling Hayden. And, as Maxine
tells us, her career choice and her marriage (and this goes for her
sister too) were steered by her parents and the UWS politics, and the
Easter European nonsense  that they were indoctrinated with from
childhood.


So, Horst likes to party, Even after he's married with kids. That's adventure.

But not for Maxine.

The the adventure part is mapped on from Hayden to Maxine & Horst
through her marriage to a Lutheran who doubles as Hayden the Hollywood
Lefty and war hero.

Hayden is 6'5",  is a big beautiful man who loves adventure and has a
problem with Raygun.


The Totalitarianism as Fascist Corporate State is so obvious,  it
seems a given. But it's not corporate fascism, as March would argue,
but a madness that has no precedent, as Arendt remind us, the evil we
engage in, is often unprecedented, and looking for a precedent causes
blind spots, giving space to the banal evil of ordinary men and women,
and the madness of the mob.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hayden
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