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Perhaps they understand the meaning, but this: > “It goes back to Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil a bit,” says director Andrew Neel. “These everyday things t
by raincole 4mo ago
Perhaps they understand the meaning, but this:
> “It goes back to Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil a bit,” says director Andrew Neel. “These everyday things that are beloved to us, like food, can take on an entirely different dimension within the context of a dictatorship.”
Is still a misquote/misrepresentation. People can understand a subject but still say wrong things about it.
- cycomanic 4mo agoIt seems your misinterpreting the quote, it does never says that > “These everyday things that are beloved to us, like food, can take on an entirely different dimension within the context of a dictatorship.” Is the definition of the banality of evil concept. I would argue though that within the concept you will interpret banal things differently. For a more blatant example, the banal act of putting an approval stamp onto a piece of paper will be interpreted quite differently in the context of a administrator in Reichsbahn in Nazi germanycompared to an administrator at the Bundesbahn now.