[HN Gopher] Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinishe...
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       Beyond Authenticity: Hannah Arendt's final unfinished work
        
       Author : apollinaire
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-07-26 17:44 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | Th idea of "will", especially from the German side, got a bad rap
       | for obvious reasons. But I like Arendt's picture of it as an
       | uncomfortable inner tension when we simultaneously see what what
       | we want to be (or should morally do), and an alternative path set
       | out by habit and company.
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       | To me, will is a very important component in security, it's that
       | tense feeling you get just before you;                 - decide
       | the video conference with your boss urging you to transfer
       | $1m into a Swiss account might not be as it seems, and pull the
       | plug (risking being fired)            - walk out of the shop that
       | stubbornly refused to take cash (risking         social
       | embarrassment)            - refuse a significant discount in
       | exchange for giving personal         information (taking
       | financial loss on principle)            - tell someone in a more
       | authoritative position, no you won't be         joining them via
       | Teams/Zoom because of its security risks (risking
       | unpopularity)
       | 
       | What we find in cybersecurity incident autopsies is that people
       | say "I knew X wasn't right. All my spidery feelings and heckles
       | were on red alert, but I didn't _act_ , and I don't know why."
       | 
       | So in another piece I wrote;                   Our culture is now
       | about to split into two camps; the normative         and the
       | secure. Instead of "the haves and have-nots", there will
       | be "the will, and the will-nots". Those who will compromise and
       | those who will not compromise security. Those who choose security
       | over convenience. Those who choose security against the nagging
       | "advice" of corporations and governments to adopt a weaker
       | position favourable to "markets".
        
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