Yes. Hannah Arendt's (figurative) thesis on the banality of evil shows us that evil does not self-announce. You have to recognize it, because it creeps up on you, envelops you and makes you a part of it before you realize what it is. One might as well have asked in 1939 whether Hitlerism is Fascism. He had not yet become the 20th Century…
Yes. Hannah Arendt's (figurative) thesis on the banality of evil shows us that evil does not self-announce. You have to recognize it, because it creeps up on you, envelops you and makes you a part of it before you realize what it is. One might as well have asked in 1939 whether Hitlerism is Fascism. He had not yet become the 20th Century's symbol of evil, yet all the pieces of the puzzle had already assembled themselves. No one could point to him in an encyclopedia, yet there he was in the flesh. You have to recognize the patterns. It's not an easy task, the less so for people unaccustomed to thinking. It takes even the experts up to six months to determine for their own account whether someone they've been interacting with is a psychopath.
Yes. Hannah Arendt's (figurative) thesis on the banality of evil shows us that evil does not self-announce. You have to recognize it, because it creeps up on you, envelops you and makes you a part of it before you realize what it is. One might as well have asked in 1939 whether Hitlerism is Fascism. He had not yet become the 20th Century's symbol of evil, yet all the pieces of the puzzle had already assembled themselves. No one could point to him in an encyclopedia, yet there he was in the flesh. You have to recognize the patterns. It's not an easy task, the less so for people unaccustomed to thinking. It takes even the experts up to six months to determine for their own account whether someone they've been interacting with is a psychopath.
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