Mass man loses self-interest and becomes expendable once class bonds dissolve

Evidence

Self-centeredness, therefore, went hand in hand with a decisive weakening of the instinct for self-preservation. Selflessness in the sense that oneself does not matter, the feeling of being expendable, was no longer the expression of individual idealism but a mass phenomenon. The old adage that the poor and oppressed have nothing to lose but their chains no longer applied to the mass men, for they lost much more than the chains of misery when they lost interest in their own well-being: the source of all the worries and cares which make human life troublesome and anguished was gone. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 756

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Provides the psychology that later totalitarian movements exploit — key mechanism for the biopolitics/necropolitics building block
• QUESTION: How does this mass-man psychology map onto populations constructed as expendable by colonial and racialized statecraft, a bridge the field readings will need?