Hannah Arendt is one of my favourite authors and thinkers. The main thing I have learned from her is that evil doesn't have to be a monster. Evil has many guises including someone who is "just following orders." The 'banality of evil' is the common everyday, hum drum stuff that seems normal because many people accept it rather than speak out against it.
Bullying is something that people seem to accept in many guises and needs to be recognized as something that is not good.
A movie based on Hannah Arendt's life has just been released and I hope I will have a chance to see it at some point.
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