The forces of loneliness can cause political instability. And threaten democracy | V (formerly Eve Ensler)

What happens to our hearts when we are encased in a field of malevolence and hatred that daily threatens our stability and peace?

I have been thinking about fascism long before I even knew I was thinking about it. I lived for years inside the mind, the home, the terror of my tyrannical father who used violence as the methodology to sustain his power over every aspect of our existence. In order to achieve that power he separated and divided us. He isolated us, used us against each other and made us lonely.

Hannah Arendt wrote about loneliness in the Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951: What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience."