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I tend to find the dystopian vision of Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil the most utterly believable. In it, we have benign or benevolent actors, who are guilty of n
by peatmoss 11y ago
I tend to find the dystopian vision of Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil the most utterly believable. In it, we have benign or benevolent actors, who are guilty of nothing more than incompetence. Evil is an emergent property of the system rather than a conscious act. People give up autonomy and privacy for retention of their bourgeois lifestyle, and mostly ignore the economic underclasses. A small number of malcontents are branded as terrorists and the government ineffectually tries to treat the symptom rather than the underlying disease.
- ricksplat 11y ago> benign or benevolent actors This was Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" theory that she developed post WW2 when everybody was trying to figure out what happened. Evil acts are perpetrated by dumb people "just doing their job".