The ego dissolves when self-directed action becomes either impossible or unnecessary

Evidence

It is this absoluteness of movements which more than anything else separates them from party structures and their partiality, and serves to justify their claim to overrule all objections of individual conscience. The particular reality of the individual person appears against the background of a spurious reality of the general and universal, shrinks into a negligible quantity or is submerged in the stream of dynamic movement of the universal itself. In this stream the difference between ends and means evaporates together with the personality, and the result is the monstrous immorality of ideological politics. All that matters is embodied in the moving movement itself; every idea, every value has vanished into a welter of superstitious pseudoscientific immanence. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 631 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Subordinating the ego to impersonal systems is how individuals escape self-tyranny. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2402; The absoluteness of movements dissolves individual conscience and ends-means distinctions — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 631

Broader Connections

• The absoluteness of movements dissolves individual conscience and ends-means distinctions #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 631