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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social

Moral inadequacies and compromises and failures of strategy or foresight are interesting because they involve a degree of inner conflict: between principle and capacity, intentions and impacts, etc. Evil, by contrast, is boring: it doesn’t doubt itself.

sep 1, 2025, 3:15 am • 91 2

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social

Amending Arendt’s coinage of “the banality of evil” to include “the lack of narrative tension of evil.”

sep 1, 2025, 3:16 am • 175 14 • view
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Ed Costello @edcos39.bsky.social

Read "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

sep 1, 2025, 3:17 am • 5 0 • view
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alinag @ramshackle78.bsky.social

But you are doing frequently one of the important jobs in this time: describing the topology of MAGA (that we all share a bed with). And then some people are doing the other important job of keeping records (private or public). Hardly anybody talks about what after Trump

sep 1, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view