The “virtues" of inconstancy and forgetfulness

If there is such a thing as a totalitarian personality or mentality... extraordinary adaptability and absence of continuity are no doubt its outstanding characteristics.

The perpetual-motion mania of totalitarian movements which can remain in power only so long as they keep moving and set everything around them in motion.

Hence it might be a mistake to assume that the inconstancy and forgetfulness of the masses signify that they are cured of the totalitarian delusion...; the opposite might well be true.

— Hannah Arendt. The origins of totalitarianism. 1967. iBooks.