Thursday, November 17, 2005

PURE EVIL!!!

Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil, is your recommended reading for the weekend. Arendt sat in on Eichmann's trial and was struck by how this ordinary, thoughtless individual could oversee the slaughter of 6,000,000 of his fellow human beings. No cloven hooves, no pointy ears, no sinister little goate, just horned rimmed glasses and a bored expression.

Read it!

H.E.

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