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TSA and the Banality of Evil

There's a lot of great work on "evil." The Lucifer Effect is the starting point, and there's an awesome book about how some normal soldiers transformed into murderers. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. We can see what's called the banality of evil today, with TSA: Banality of evil is a phrase coined by Hannah Arendt and incorporated in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).