But real evil? That’s something else entirely.
Evil, in the 21st century, is often The Bureaucracy of Harm Hannah Arendt famously wrote about the "banality of evil" — how the worst atrocities in history were carried out not by monsters, but by ordinary desk-job bureaucrats who stopped thinking about the human consequences of their actions. But real evil
We throw the word "evil" around casually these days. A glitchy app is evil. A late delivery is evil. Someone cutting in line? Pure evil. We throw the word "evil" around casually these days
Second, start asking boring questions about the systems you participate in. Who profits when this feature works as designed? Who gets hurt? Who gets to say “not my department”? Someone cutting in line
Don’t scroll past. What do you think — have we lost the meaning of “evil,” or are we just seeing its new face? Drop a comment or reply. Let’s talk about the uncomfortable stuff.