The Idiots Who Rule America (tell us about ourselves / propaganda?
Our oligarchic class is incompetent at governing, managing the economy, coping with natural disasters, educating our young, handling foreign affairs, providing basic services like health care and safeguarding individual rights. That it is still in power, and will remain in power after this election, is a testament to our inability to separate illusion from reality. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21064.htm The Banality of Evil >From the book Triumph of the Market The concept of the banality of evil came into prominence following the publication of Hannah Arendt's 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, which was based on the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. Arendt's thesis was that people who carry out unspeakable crimes, like Eichmann, a top administrator in the machinery of the Nazi death camps, may not be crazy fanatics at all, but rather ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises of their state and participate in any ongoing enterprise with the energy of good bureaucrats. Normalizing the Unthinkable http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7278.htm Evil: The Crime against Humanity http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/arendthtml/essayc1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_Evil Quotes by Hannah Arendt US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 - 1975) War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. On Revolution ~ http://tinyurl.com/5t2w36 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
