Posted by: Francesco Pierri
" He was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness. That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man - that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem. But it was a lesson, neither an explanation of the phenomenon nor a theory about it.

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Posted by: Francesco Pierri
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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