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Pastimes : The Truth about Waco
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (168)8/30/1999 12:52:00 PM
From: Bob Lao-Tse  Read Replies (1) of 1449
 
"...the banality of evil."

Too true. Those who gassed the Jews were for the most part not consciously evil; they were casually evil and had no awareness that they were so and probably would never have even considered the question, and that is frightening.

This is what I'm talking about when I speak of the culture the power-mongers surround themselves with. By cultivating this sort of banal evil, they accomplish many things:

They set us against each other;

They always have someone to do the dirty work;

They always have someone to blame;

And they, through all of this, ensure the furtherance of their own quest for power.

Perhaps thankfully though, they also ensure their own doom. A civilization that goes down this path will always eventually kill itself, and the base for their power will vanish, and like Mussolini they'll end up swinging from a lamp post.

That doesn't make it any more pleasant for us though.
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