What really frightens me...
HOMO ESCAPEONS: Welcome to an Autodidact's egregiously oversimplified pleonasmic emporium of hodge-podgery
HOMO ESCAPEONS: Welcome to an Autodidact's egregiously oversimplified pleonasmic emporium of hodge-podgery
Much like this.
ReplyDeleteIn truth, I've never bought into Arendt's philosophy. She's really quite controversial.
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ReplyDeleteexactly :)
LEAH
Agreed she was focussing from a specific angle but the observation dovetails nicely with how Eichman desperately tried to ignore his past and pretend to an average citizen.
His designs were unspeakably evil and they also required the compliance and endorsement of everyday people.
Here we are 60 years later and we've watched in horror as the same mentality allowed neighbours to lose it in Serbia, Rwanda and Sudan. It terrifies me that that switch can be turned on so easily.
Truly, group think is a dangerous thing, when the individual voice and thought are silenced.
ReplyDeleteI can totally understand what they mean by the mindless masses doing some pretty evil, crappy things. That's what happens when we listen to a$$holes. All we end up with is sh*t!
yup
ReplyDeletewho ever first said this
ReplyDelete‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ probably had Hannah's quote in mind
oh - and good to see that you're hanging in with the bloggery
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I agree with Mr Swings!
ReplyDeleteI'm having problems thinking for myself this morning...
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:( Scary stuff.
ReplyDeleteHe really does look like a giggly schoolgirly with that shoulder shrug and smirk, doesn't he?
ReplyDeleteHis housekeeper said he was a very nice, charming man.
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