> banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. People going to work every day while there are bombs dropping, in the middle of a war, trying t

> banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring. People going to work every day while there are bombs dropping, in the middle of a war, trying to keep the exchange of goods going so they can pay for the war and to survive, is not banal. It's not obvious that people would go to work in a war zone, and it's not boring, and in many times in history people did not go to work during a war (except for farmers, whose lives depended on it)