Conversation

I am reading _ Eichman in Jerusalem_ , and this time through, as an older person confronted by the systematic failure of ordinary people to recognise or act against the environmental crisis, for decades, it has un-wished-for explanatory force.

My children don't understand why anyone would use a car, all those cars driving by every day, or buy water in a plastic bottle, why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are used as examples of "good" entrepreneurs in their curriculum. I can see the corrupt business practices that meant we were offered a new gas boiler rather than a ground source heat pump in the government-backed scheme...but I don't understand it.

#Arendt did. She understood evil. What a terrible gift.