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The cumulative effect of this banality is dispiriting.
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The phenomenon of the banality of violence, the idea that a culture of violence exists in certain environments, does not diminish the damaging effects of this violent behaviour.
For political philosopher Hannah Arendt, commenting on the behaviour of Adolf Eichmann during World War II, this "banality of evil" represents the ultimate horror of bureaucracy, in which even unspeakable acts can become normal and routine through the exercise of authority.
It is important we recognize this "banality of evil" in the world.
Most writers would get through this banality as quickly as possible, but not Knausgaard.
I wanted to have this banality.
Sutton subverts expectations of who the shooter is while also reveling in the kind of banalities that heighten the effect of the impending brutality.
After enduring a couple of minutes of banalities, he says: "This is not working for me," and excuses himself.
The orator can avoid this tendency of banality by the use of dignified or elevated expressions and in general by all formulations that deviate from common usage.
This version of the banality of evil now feels rather banal.
"I had tried to prepare myself for this — for the possibility of banality, of an apparently unremarkable black box," he writes about visiting the nerve center of the Internet exchange in Frankfurt.
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