Not until recently did I truly understand what Hannah Arendt meant by the banality of evil. Yet I had not recognised how quietly, how efficiently, banality works—not only through bureaucrats and systems, but through fatigue, distance, and the slow erosion of outrage.
Elias Göransson, inspired by the Zan, Zendeghi, Azadi movement, which grew after Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022 following a conflict with the moral police who enforce compulsory dress codes for women. Iranian women began cutting their hair in public places with scissors to show their protest against the compulsory hijab.Fortsätt läsa ”The banality of helplessness? – Reading Hannah Arendt through the Iranian diaspora”
