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Revision as of 17:33, 24 July 2008 by Cberlet (talk | contribs) (housecleaning)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)I am away from Misplaced Pages working on online resources where the rules are actually enforced, and conspiracism, antisemitism, neofascism, and totalitarianism are challenged rather then rewarded.
Who knows where the trains filled with all those people are going?
Not my concern...rules are rules....
See, for example:
"In her reporting of the Eichmann trial for The New Yorker, which evolved into Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963), she coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe Eichmann. She raised the question of whether evil is radical or simply a function of banality - the tendency of ordinary people to obey orders and conform to mass opinion without critically thinking about the results of their action or inaction." (Misplaced Pages)
The irony of democratic process is that if those who value it do not defend it against the onslaught of fanatics and totalitarians, it will be lost--and every step of the way, the eradication of democracy will be accomplished with small, seemingly insignificant actions, justified as within the rules and laws of the democracy being slowly poisoned to death. The banality of bureaucracy without morality.
-cb