Explain How Everything Is Possible By Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism

In the Origins of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt investigates the roots of totalitarianism and tries to come to the terms of how it is possible that a world of genocide and concentration camps can exist and be widely supported despite contradicting self- interest. She concludes that the motto of totalitarianism should be “everything is possible” because evil is not always radical but somewhat predictable, ordinary and banal. This essay will investigate whether or not Arendt actually believes that it is possible to transform human nature in the way totalitarianism seeks. To understand how everything is possible, one must first understand how a transformation of the human nature takes place. Ordinary citizens are not aware of that everything
Looking at modern society, do all groups really have full political and social recognition or are we actually living in a society with present totalitarianism elements? A lack of human rights to gender, race and class is thus important to acknowledge because without it, security is lost and society can carve a path in which totalitarianism then slowly can emerge from. The Jews became characterised by “the policy of the government” (Arendt OT, p.423) legitimized discrimination on an innocent group. The asylum seekers arriving to another country illegally is another example of this where the law is prioritized over human rights. The camps were a lawless sphere which, ideally for totalitarianism should be expanded (Arendt, OT p.451). This means that even the smallest legal recognition would be an obstacle and limit. “Everything is possible” is thus only applicable if it can destroy laws themselves. Totalitarianism creates an illusion to have found a solution that lawless society is ideal (Arendt OT, p.462). However it does no such thing as it actually attacks the core of authority where positive law have gained its legitimacy. It embeds a law above and “is designed to translate into reality the laws of movement of history or nature” (Arendt OT, p.464). Stating that totalitarianism lacks laws are therefore both true and false because It does not have a positive laws and neither a predictability of how law is treating individuals, however it does have a strong commitment to embed a higher law that is going to help with the goal of total domination. Totalitarianism does undermine both human rights and laws and this is how the judicial person becomes completely destroyed and this is the first step into an idea that “everything is