An Argument for knowing the "banality of evil" Ideas
How do we understand new concepts and ideas?
"If your past is your experience, make the future sense and vision!"
A credo
We live in malevolent times and we are the enabling or worse the purveyors of evil into a world that is confused about what is real and what is opinion. So we have an obligation to not stand idle, to obstruct "the banality of evil," and to construct a place in the world better than the places we have found.
To be honest
"There is an excitement in ideas"
that allows us to envision a better, fairer and more effective world.
We have the capacity to evoke hope, in what we conceive.
And further, we have the ability to change the world we see. "
J. Siry
"So what shall we do?"
technology presents opportunities and obstacles
Hannah Arendt wrote about the banality of evil during the rise and spread of fascism throughout Europe from 1919 through the 1930s because she was appalled at the means by which societies appeared unable or unwilling to challenge the assumtions of extreme nationalism based on alleged ethnic purity.
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Accounting for all natural assets
Ecological services are valuable
Date: March 1, 2008
