{"id":3403,"date":"2017-10-15T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2017-10-15T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T18:18:08","slug":"the-banality-of-evil-hannah-ardent-on-the-normalization-of-human-wickedness-and-our-only-effective-antidote-to-itbrainpickings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/2017\/10\/the-banality-of-evil-hannah-ardent-on-the-normalization-of-human-wickedness-and-our-only-effective-antidote-to-itbrainpickings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banality of Evil: Hannah Ardent on the Normalization of Human Wickedness and Our Only Effective Antidote to it(Brainpickings)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Nazis, Arendt argues, furnished this deliberate disconnect from reality with what she calls \u201choles of oblivion.\u201d (Today, we call them \u201calternative facts.\u201d) In a searing testament to the power of speaking up, she considers what the story of the Holocaust \u2014 a story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2013\/03\/26\/viktor-frankl-mans-search-for-meaning\/\">irrepressibly told by its survivors<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 has taught us:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The lesson of such stories is simple and within everybody\u2019s grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror most people will comply but\u00a0<em>some people will not<\/em>, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that \u201cit could happen\u201d in most places\u00a0<em>but it did not happen everywhere<\/em>. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3404\" src=\"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hannaharendt_large-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hannaharendt_large-649x1024.jpg 649w, http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hannaharendt_large-190x300.jpg 190w, http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hannaharendt_large.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2017\/02\/07\/hannah-arendt-the-banality-of-evil\/\">Read more at Brainpickings here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Nazis, Arendt argues, furnished this deliberate disconnect from reality with what she calls \u201choles of oblivion.\u201d (Today, we call them \u201calternative facts.\u201d) In a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,2062,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Cgx5-ST","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3403\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tribaltruth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}