1. The trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, when he said that I was just carrying out orders as a soldier to transport people from concentration camps to the road of death, I passed through the trial seat, as if the person in that position was: Crazy during the Cultural Revolution The majority of the demolition team, the urban management, the family planning office, those who said that this was the state-run face stipulated above with no expression on their faces... "Execution of orders" is the simplest logic to excuse specific people who commit evil under an evil system, or to commit crimes unconsciously. Arendt said that it is a banal evil. It is not the devil who commits the heinous crime, but the nobody, who does not need to be punished for making a mistake. Even the crime is a meaningless and purposeless act. The act of purpose, that's what's terrifying.
2. Why nobody is the most terrifying, because among the gangsters, nobody gave up the possibility of becoming a person. The movie keeps recalling how Heidegger opened up Arendt’s episode about “thinking”. Thinking is not reason or emotion, but thinking is a state of being alive and existing. To become a person, you must learn to start thinking—what is reasonable? What is unreasonable? ——There is no judgment without thinking, and if you accept instructions casually, you cannot become a human being. The question is, why is there a system that makes it easy for people to hand over their brains to do evil without discrimination?
3. Arendt's criticism, or questioning, of the Jewish leaders lies in their silence. In the Arendt concept of being human, silence means cooperation with evil. And this silence, out of fear or out of ignorance, how familiar it is today!
4. If you look up and see more broadly, you will find how profound and calm Arendt is. He jumps out of the rut of the country and the nation and points directly to the core of centralization. Centralization never admits its own centralization. I am the one who gives orders, but let countless nobody abandon the possible power of the individual, and let the glory of the peak shine infinitely on all living beings. Arendt's questioning is so familiar in today's news events, it is so familiar that it is terrifying. All the evil deeds are committed by nobody to nobody. Even if he is as high as Mr Wang, he is still nobody. No matter what kind of screwdriver you are, will you continue to hand over your brain to be a random nobody?
5. Arendt's husband's point of view is also worthy of attention. Even if Eichmann is a demon, execution is a simple and rude way, because he is the silent majority in the entire evil system, and public opinion is another kind of institutional or group evil. The movie doesn't say it in a reasonable way, I think, it's a confession! Let the evildoer restore the ability to think, and let him judge his former evil by himself, that is the punishment and pain deep in the soul.
6. Arendt is happy to change the omissions in my cognition of female philosophers. Such a wise teacher and lover, such a caring and loving husband, and so many friends who meet sparks everywhere. Arendt is calm and rational when thinking, and is full of warmth and even humor in his life relatives and friends. A wise person never understands life, does he?
This movie is really condensed too much, the system, individual behavior, group prejudice, language violence, Arendt received a lot of saliva today, but, as Arendt said: please Argument with me, not catharsis!
Take a long breath, the distance is long, the road is long, and climb slowly!
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