>edit: downvotes for suggesting that maybe the NSA shouldn't be compared to the party that gassed 6 million people solely for their ethnicity? Grow up, HN.
I really liked your comment, but I downvoted you, let me explain why. I did so because your first sentience is likely to derail the conversation rather than further it. Yes, the phase Banality of Evil comes from a book on the Holocaust, but CPLX was using it in a more general sense. You seem to agree with this usage when you say:
>If there's really a banality of evil, I'd say that's just a subset of the banality of all bureaucracies.
This is what I understand the banality of evil to mean.
I really liked your comment, but I downvoted you, let me explain why. I did so because your first sentience is likely to derail the conversation rather than further it. Yes, the phase Banality of Evil comes from a book on the Holocaust, but CPLX was using it in a more general sense. You seem to agree with this usage when you say:
>If there's really a banality of evil, I'd say that's just a subset of the banality of all bureaucracies.
This is what I understand the banality of evil to mean.