The banality of evil consists in the insistence on precision and on an efficient mode of life and the concomitant tendency to weed out anything considered inefficient.
de Medeiros
"To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places...To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away and never, never, to forget." ~ Arundhati Roy
Great question—this fragment points to one of Marshall Sahlins’ most influential arguments in anthropology. Let me unpack it clearly: Sahlin...
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