Totalitarian functionaries are bound by belief in human omnipotence

Evidence

What binds these men together is a firm and sincere belief in human omnipotence. Their moral cynicism, their belief that everything is permitted, rests on the solid conviction that everything is possible. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 892

Categorization

• XREF: Links moral cynicism to omnipotence belief — connects to the Islamophobia toolkit’s account of how ideology produces its functionaries.
• DEFINE: Defines the psychology of the totalitarian entourage: cynicism that everything is permitted grounded in conviction that everything is possible.