GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/11/1999 6:59:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tdthomas at es.co.nz writes:

<< Nazi's and all their supporters, the
 colonial authorities in sudwest, those big multinationals benefitting from
 genocide, - none of them are the lunatic fringe, at some level they are
 people just like you and me. Thats the terrifying thing. >>

Isn't this what Hanna Arendt was getting at in her study of _Eichmann in 
Jerusalem_ and the concept of the "banality of evil?"

jbf