Time, quiet flow. I watched the movie "Hannah Arendt", and it took a long time to be calm. I recently read "Love the World: The Biography of Hannah Arendt", and I have a certain understanding of Arendt's life and thought path. Next, watching this thought-provoking film does not feel too difficult. Although Hannah Arendt’s "The Origin of Totalitarianism" has not been read yet, through her biography and movies, we can also roughly sort out the source of totalitarianism and dictatorship, as well as the "banal evil" caused by the institutional system. . Before discussing this film, I quote a quote written by Hannah Allen in "The Situation of Humans": "Love wisdom and love goodness, if they are realized as philosophical activities and good deeds, then they have at least one point in common. It means that at any time that people pretend to be wise or good, they are terminated, that is, they are cancelled on their own. There are no lack of attempts in history to turn fleeting activities into existence, but such attempts are all in an absurd situation. " Absolute evil comes from the arrogance and self-reflection of human beings, and the belief that they have mastered the keys to the ultimate "wisdom" and "goodness", and trying to make these things acceptable to the public and drive ignorance. People or people full of idealism, populists attacked the wilderness, cities, villages, and rivers, and then enslaved and forced the public to subdue and believe in a certain “ism”. Chaos and ignorance are willing to be destroyed and harmed without knowing it, and sometimes even Finding excuses or excuses for totalitarianism... This sad human situation can't be described as silly and stupid, but Hannah Arendt calls it "the evil of banality." "Hannah Arendt" tells the story of Hannah Arendt who learned from the newspaper that Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer, was arrested by Israeli agents in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and decided to court in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel Trial. Hannah Arendt then decided to apply for an interview as a correspondent of the "New Yorker" because she herself had a sad experience in the Jewish women’s prison camp in Gur. She and her husband Heinrich Blücher were lucky. For fear of her husband’s application for a visa to the United States, the remaining two hundred Jewish women who were imprisoned by the French Vichy government in Gull’s camp were transported to Auschwitz, Nazi Germany. ……It was this experience that she wanted to observe this "living person" up close through this case, A Nazi officer. She successfully obtained the opportunity of this visit and embarked on this unusual journey. In order to avoid overly lengthy introductions, I want to skip the plot and even the historical background, and those who are interested can read related books by themselves. Adolf Eichmann was also one of many Nazi officers who had lost the ability to think independently. He only knew that he mechanically executed the orders of Nazi Germany and the head of state, and executed the officers who transported Jews to concentration camps, but he naturally committed an unforgivable crime. Obvious. However, he is just a "technocrat", an ordinary person who has lost the ability to judge and think. His evil deeds can only be described as "banal evil" at best. Although the fact that he was eventually sentenced to hanging is not worthy of sympathy. However, after all, he was only an "executor" and had no right to participate in the final decision-making process, and his role in the Nazi national system clearly proved that he was not "innocent" and the punishment received was not improper. The Eichmann-style people were all over Nazi Germany. It was Germany's eradication of individual values, elimination of individual differences , and destruction of human nature. The brainwashing of national supremacy turned Germans into stupid people with no individuality, and turned into a state machine controlled by identity. The alienated people under the system have caused disasters all over Europe. However, what is the force that causes this "banal evil" to exist? Hannah Arendt gave a clear answer. Wait for me to try to understand the mystery and quote it concisely. Totalitarian evil kills the difference between people and makes them incapacitated. This is true even for the people in the concentration camps, they even believe in the fate they are about to face: they deserve to be abandoned. People are set to "don't watch", "forget" (the Silence in Doctor Who has this kind of special function), faith, worship power idols, lose the ability to think, only know that people say things like other things, like stuck tape ( Doctor Who, Season 7, Episode 8 (Cold War) only repeats the same voice, and only mechanically executes the orders of the boss. They don’t know how to resist, don’t know their conscience, or their souls . They are what Le Pen calls "the mob", too Patients with Stockholm syndrome. The abuser is as ignorant as the abused. We should be wary of the human tragedy caused by this "banal evil", so as to avoid disasters or reduce the harm caused by disasters. So that's it. Time flies, thinking for an endless period of time. As Hannah Arendt said in the film:"Thinking does not require knowledge . " This is not anti-intellect, but we need to know that independent thinking is an ability, but it is not out of reach. Thinking activity should be the barrier that human beings are born with different from beasts. Only thinking can avoid the road to slavery. The simplification and inertia of thinking will only make people feel at a loss and "fall into an absurd situation." Time flies, the years have no trace, everything is returned to eternal peace... The taste of life lies in reading and seeing the world, feeling the tranquility of life, blending into nature, and returning to the original. Perhaps this is the true meaning of life?
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