> More recent social science demonstrates that demonization is a habit found
> across various sectors of society among people who are no more prone to
> mental illness than the rest of society. The “banality of evil”, as Arendt
> observed, is that ordinary people can become willing--even
> eager--participants in brutality and mass murder justified by demonization
> of scapegoated groups in a society, (1963).
Which also goes a long way toward explaining the establishment and behavior of political parties and sects thereof, no?
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/ dave /