I'm going to try to refrain from borrowing trouble, there'll be more than we could want soon enough. But as regards the title of this post, Hannah Arendt right.

Perhaps "good" and "evil" are merely emergent properties and not intrinsic ones. We all seem to possess the capacity for both to varying degrees.

To what extent, then, are we culpable? Is it all just contingent? Does being immersed in a capitalist media culture just make people evil? Or just push those inclined that way, farther along?

How many of our fellow citizens, our "neighbors," may find themselves one day, not too far from now, saying what so many Germans were saying in 1946?

"I was a 'good German'."

And is the evil we witness today, and will witness tomorrow, simply the evil we choose to see, while indulging our own self-delusions regarding our "goodness," when it comes to our culpability for the evil we choose to ignore? I trust I don't have to point out what that is.

Yeah, we're probably all sinners.

Doesn't seem like we take it seriously though.

I don't think the answer is in the Bible; because if it was, I don't think we'd be here today.

Anyway, introspection and self-reflection is for chumps, bro!

Winning!

Originally posted at Nice Marmot 13:09 Wednesday, 6 November 2024