Publius2000

"Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.--Let those materials be moulded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws" --Abraham Lincoln, speaking on "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions" Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, 1838

Friday, September 21, 2007

The Banality of Evil


This post is borrowed from my friend Pastorious over at CUANAS. In current times you have the President of Iran claiming he will destroy Isreal with Nuclear weapons, but somehow people just don't believe he will do it. He doesn't look that evil, the Iranians are a rational people, they are simply playing power politics, nothing more...well the pictures at the site linked here show that evil often comes in the guise of regular people. Banal just means, "common" or "unoriginal" you don't need evil to appear with devilish horns breathing fire...often it just looks like the poeple linked below...
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