smarmykemeticpagan:

i also saw someone in that thread say “a/pep is supposed to be ‘nothing’ AND” “racism”?? how garbled” as if it’s a contradiction somehow. how can something be both ‘nothingness’ and ‘evil’?

dudes……evil is nothingness, a ‘nothingness’ of the spirit. it’s what happens when you lack the inner spark and substance to do right. forget the hollywood shit where the Bad Guy is complicated and interesting and dark. real evil isn’t complicated, or interesting, or philosophical. it’s just a pit where everything human falls into to die. it doesn’t take courage or strength to be cruel. there’s no wisdom or ‘realness’ in selfishness. no value in the ignorance and laziness that enables it. 

“It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth that can be radical.” –

Hannah Arendt