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Hannah Arendt — Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Arendt, Hannah. *Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil*. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

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Correction

Correction is reality-contact and revisability: the lived work of noticing mismatch, updating beliefs or behavior, and narrowing the gap between what was assumed and what is actually happening before drift hardens into normal.

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Guest Leadership

A form of circulation where people closest to an issue can temporarily step in to lead a response, then return to their usual role.

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Legitimacy

Legitimacy is justified recognition of authority—whether power reads as earned and contestable enough that coordination holds under stress instead of collapsing into cynicism, performative compliance, or hidden veto by drift.

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