February 2012
250 posts
January 2012
198 posts
The Banality of Evil or The Normalizing of Unthinkable
The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. Arendt’s thesis was that people who carry out unspeakable crimes, like Eichmann, a top administrator in the machinery of the Nazi death camps, may not be crazy fanatics at all, but rather ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state and participate in any ongoing enterprise with the energy of good bureaucrats.
Chinatown, My Chinatown
The Mills Brothers
Chinatown, My Chinatown by The Mills Brothers
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Radiohead - Paranoid Android
please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to get some rest / from all the unborn chicken voices in my head / what’s that…? (I may be paranoid, but not an android) / what’s that…? (I may be paranoid, but not an android) / when I am king, you will be first against the wall / with your opinion which is of no consequence at all / what’s that…? (I may be paranoid, but no android) / what’s that…? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in rain… Time to die.”
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