On my day off I am doing some heavy lifting.. reading wise.. reading Hannah Arendt ‘The origin of Totalitarianism:’
She has great insight into the nature of good and evil.. I think she is best know for the phrase the ‘the banality of evil.’
From an article..
This wasn’t Arendt’s first, somewhat superficial impression of Eichmann. Even 10 years after his trial in Israel, she wrote in 1971:
I was struck by the manifest shallowness in the doer [ie Eichmann] which made it impossible to trace the uncontestable evil of his deeds to any deeper level of roots or motives. The deeds were monstrous, but the doer – at least the very effective one now on trial – was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous.’
Edith Stein wrote ‘only love is creative.’ I was taking to two seminarian who were going to be ordained deacons. That heating confessions only reinforce Hannah Arendt ‘banality of evil.’ Pascal said in his famous book ‘Penses.’ That we don’t even know how to sin boldly. That we lack passion. We neither sin boldly or become bold Saints. Jesus says ‘I wish you were hot or cold. But because you are neither hot or cold I will vomit you out of my mouth.’
The worst thing is a luke warm good person. Better an atheist with passion than a lukewarm good doer. Why.. because a passionate atheist can become a great saint..
Ok.. back to Hannah. I was thinking of her theory. And the book ‘The Stand’ in Steven King book
This is taken from Wikepdia..
.Meanwhile, Randall Flagg, who possesses supernatural abilities, creates his own totalitarian society in Las Vegas with psychopaths as his lieutenants. His people worship (and fear) him as a messiah and submit to his iron-fisted dictatorship. He has drug addicts and others who incur his displeasure crucified. Flagg rescues Lloyd Henreid, a mass murderer, from his prison cell and makes him his right-hand man..’
That Randal Flagg gets his right hand man.. Lloyd a drop out from society as his right hand man. This is taken right out of Hannah thoughts of who form the mob of totalitarianism. They already have given up on life and meaning. Thus they let will hitch their star to anyone that notice them, even if the star is Randal Flagg, the devil himself.
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