Pan-movements arose from shrinking geographic distances that made continental thinking urgent

Evidence

It was this shrinking of geographic distances that found an expression in Friedrich Naumann’s Central Europe: “The day is still distant when there shall be ‘one fold and one shepherd,’ but the days are past when shepherds without number, lesser or greater, drove their flocks unrestrained over the pastures of Europe. The spirit of large-scale industry and of super-national organisation has seized politics. People think, as Cecil Rhodes once expressed it, ‘in Continents.’” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2426

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the reader’s scaffolding goal — pan-movements as a precursor mechanism for totalitarian politics, feeding into later Islamophobia readings on how colonial/imperial scale thinking reconfigures national categories. — connects to: Modern transport shifts orientation from space to time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 309