From "the destruction of six million" I will put the link for the whole article that I'm reading at the bottom. An look at her thoughts on the killing of six million jews and what happened to cause that. Fuck your hope. "To the first question, Arendt responded that ‘the world did not keep silent; but apart from not keeping silent, the world did nothing.’ People had the audacity to express feelings of horror, shock and indignation, while doing nothing. This was not a failure of European humanism, she argued, which was unprepared for the emergence of totalitarianism, but of European liberalism, socialism not excluded. Listening to Beethoven and translating German into classical Greek was not what caused the intelligentsia to go along with the Nazification of social, cultural, academic and political institutions. It was an ‘unwillingness to face realities’ and it was a desire ‘to escape into some fool’s paradise of firmly held ideological convictions when confronted with facts’. https://aeon.co/essays/for-arendt-hope-in-dark-times-is-no-match-for-action