Get a Puppy

I just came across a review of Paul Berman's Terror and Liberalism by Demosophia, who cites Hannah Arendt:

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 of the evergrowing masses of our century.

Demosophia adds,

Surely the notion that it's all a matter of loneliness appeals to a sense of profound irony, but couldn't we all just get a puppy?

I think it's funnier in context.