Comments on: Mugabe: “Zimbabwe is mine”

By: Jacquie Kubin

Jacquie Kubin — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:04:24 +0000

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…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:04:52 +0000

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.

By: geotraveler

geotraveler — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:43:31 +0000

This man is unbelievable. What a tyrant

By: tom

tom — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:57:13 +0000

It breaks my heart and makes me want to scream. I've been there and it is such an amazing place, filled with people who are suffering because of what this man has brought them.