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>>11881866
not that guy, but yes. even a project of mass extermination requires bureaucracy, infrastructure, computers and so on. it requires a whole system of state authority which carries out even insane commands with professional and methodical precision. the reasons for the extermination are not rational, they belong to myth, but the tools of state are manifestly rational in their deployment and use.

every mass-populist doxa is at bottom commonsensical, it's just that what is universally believed to be reasonable can become unreasonably precisely by virtue of its universality.