The Evil of Banality

[Michael Bailey]

>
> My hope is that these revelations will encourage a further
> discrediting of the most overused, misused, abused pseudo-intellectual
> phrase in our language: the banality of evil. The banality of the
> banality of evil, the fatuousness of it, has long been fathomless, but
> perhaps now it will be consigned to the realm of the deceitful and
> disingenuous as well.
>


but wait, it's still true.

Bush press conference?  Rumsfeld with his automatic condolence letter
signing machine? Reagan's platitudes?
Kim Il Jung with his boring dick-tater-ship.  Glenn Beck's tears?

They are banal.  She was right, even if she was a Nazi!




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- "The whole point of life is to have a story" - Jeremy Cioara