The ultimate desire of evil is not to convert everyone to its cause, but to become normal. Its true victory lies in being shared by all, a dystopia where everyone is complicit. In this way, evil endures not by hiding in the shadows, but by tasting the daylight.
Hannah Arendt captured this chilling reality in her analysis of Adolf Eichmann. She noted that the very man who organized the logistics of mass murder also enjoyed weekend picnics with his family. This famously became known as "the banality of evil," the terrifying idea that monstrosity can coexist with the mundane, the bureaucratic and the polite. Evil does not always march in with a skull emblem; sometimes it arrives in the disguise of a spectacle to artwash the crimes of a state.
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