The BBC reports the latest ravings from Zimbabwe’s resident lunatic megalomaniac:
I will never, never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine, I am a Zimbabwean. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans… I won’t be intimidated. Even if I am threatened with beheading, I believe this and nothing will ever move me from it: Zimbabwe belongs to us, not the British.
Mugabe also said that the international condemnation of his handling (er, non-handling) of Zimbabwe’s ongoing cholera epidemic was “a pack of lies”, and that an African Union military intervention in his country would be “an unnecessary war started in a foolish manner because of foolish persuasion coming from foolish sources.”
It’s times like these that a dictator like Mugabe begins to look almost comical — except for the very serious consequences of his rule.
Who was that wise man who once said something about the banality of evil?
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This man is unbelievable. What a tyrant
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Hannah Arendt is the one who wrote "The Banality of Evil". Written about the Nazi regime, it takes aim at the idea that evil is exciting. I have to say that your comparison here is very fitting.
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From Wikipedia… "The banality of evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work Eichmann in Jerusalem.[1] It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal." I think what Arendt was saying was that evil, once practiced, becomes easier to tolerate. That first serial killing is always the one that haunts…
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