Maybe it’s ‘my’ fault… ‘Our‘ fault if I include the rest of my screenwriting ‘tribe’. I could widen the tribe out to include anyone and everyone who ever helped make a movie that gave an audience the notion that Evil is BILLBOARD OBVIOUS the moment it ‘walks on stage’. Alas, if only more of my tribe had been better storytellers and followed a path that hewed a little closer to The Truth: REAL Evil always ‘comes out of nowhere’. That is, it rises up out of the most ordinary of places — and THEN ‘becomes’ Evil…
The poster child for banality birthing Evil is Hitler. He truly came out of ‘nowhere’ Evil-wise…
The ordinary young art student and artist wannabe did not ‘present’ in any discernible way per his biographers. His art did not scream or shout ‘This is a crazed, dangerous mind’…
Maybe it was latent PTSD from the Great War. Maybe there was something in part of Adolph’s bloodline that slipped megalomania in through some genetic back door.
At some point, the banal art student began to morph into a more familiar Adolph Hitler — here, posing for the camera very early in his ‘career’.
By the time anyone could point at Adolph Hitler and say, with confidence, ‘That Hitler guy’s a little nutso’, it was too late. The world was already on fire. That’s why banality is so dangerous. It’s vanilla. It’s taupe. It’s so bland you reflexively look right past it. And then the next thing you know, it’s eaten you.
The Trump Administration is filled to the rafters with Banal Evil. Donald Trump himself is the epitome of Evil rising up out of the MOST BANAL. Who, really, is more banal than Donald J Trump?
Name someone in Donald Trump’s cabinet – in his circle – in his whole family even – who ISN’T banal…
My first thought was to put up the pictures of every banal shithead in the Trump Sphere. But then, I’d have to put up pictures of EVERYONE in Trump’s sphere. Life’s already too fucking short…
