
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Simple Political Communication
i feel like the maritocracy, the hierarchy thing is just one of probably several that we could come up with. So another one that is really relevant to this reeding is the simplicity of political communication. That i think that she was criticizing the trial as being political speech by israel. And for political message to resignate, it has to be simple. You can't actually get specific. It's better that he was just out of the picture so that the conversation would not be distracted by the troubles of a particular man in his particular circumstances and the details of what he did or did not do.
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