Ideological logic makes the camps coherent rather than senseless

Evidence

Yet, within the framework of the totalitarian ideology, nothing could be more sensible and logical; if the inmates are vermin, it is logical that they should be killed by poison gas; if they are degenerate, they should not be allowed to contaminate the population; if they have “slave-like souls” (Himmler), no one should waste his time trying to re-educate them. Seen through the eyes of the ideology, the trouble with the camps is almost that they make too much sense, that the execution of the doctrine is too consistent. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1027

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion — that the horror lies in the camps’ excessive consistency with the ideology’s premises, not in their senselessness — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting observation about how ideological logic operates.
• XREF: This anticipates the reader’s later Islamophobia readings: racialized dehumanization makes exclusion ‘logical’ within its own frame. — connects to: The architects of the Modigliani-Miller theorem came from opposing political-economic camps — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 171; Apparent conservative ideological contradictions are strategically coherent — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1693; Transnational protest camps fragment by ideological affinity into separate villages — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1119