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evil isn't a loving political or economic category, it's a moral category. asking which country/empire/ethnic group/corporation/capital formation/ideology/culture is most 'evil' is like asking which chemical reaction is most romantic, or which solar body is most likely to succeed after high school the necessities and contingencies of power have always been inhuman and amoral. using moral categories to understand history distorts, obfuscates, and mystifies. emTme3 has issued a correction as of 01:30 on Sep 6, 2020 |
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Its Chocolate posted:This is why it's wrong to say that Hitler was evil. He was just, uh, doing the contingencies, of power. Ever seen Game of Thrones? p much. fascism is baked into our social relations and symbolic structures. it's in you as much as it's in me. decrying your political opponents as 'evil' is nonsense - you'll never understand them and never be able to oppose them effectively if you do this. Hitler was just one logical outcome of capitalism in crisis. don't like it? win next time so it doesn't happen. emTme3 has issued a correction as of 00:39 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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'banality of evil' is one of the texts that demonstrates this idiocy very effectively. arendt goes into the Nuremberg trials expecting some cthulu-esque monstrosity, and discovers a bunch of spineless bureaucrats 'just doing their job'. the book spins it's wheels for its whole length desperately looking for the 'evil' somewhere, anywhere, it's got to be there, where is it, i know it's evil a priori so i have to be able isolate and extract and destroy it etc etc etc she can't, because it can't be isolated. it's in her too. the very 'us v them' she delineates in that text (freethinkers vs conformists, or somesuch) leads right back to pogroms and camps and extermination of the other given enough time. 'us v them' predates language, it's the structuring principal of any and all group imaginary's. considering this 'evil' leads you to misanthropic self-hatred and nihilism, like all the 'the mistake was agriculture/crawling out of ocean' posts filling this garbage thread. you either have a goal, and you do what's necessary to achieve it (which will always generate an 'us' and a 'them') or you have no goals and you spin in place till you croak. that's it. that's the world without the filter of theological concepts like 'evil'. emTme3 has issued a correction as of 00:58 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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