Friday, September 19, 2025

Guilt-Pride Infected Media Outlets: Guilty of Accomplice to Murder?

...or just an entrenched and Prideful yet Banal "Systemic Neo-Racist Rationalizer" for distorting Actual Justice as Applied to Individuals into Social Justice "Class-Action" Narratives on a mostly false premise of collective guilt and responsibility, or of hiding Real Injustices from the Public Sphere and therefore their Common Knowledge Pool in order to protect (or unveil at will) naked emperors from the loud and obnoxious little boys who might expose them?
The Ferrara Ring of Gyges
“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”
–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

Where do False Concepts of Collective Guilt and therefore Social Justice Originate?

from Google AI:
The German word for collective guilt is Kollektivschuld. This term, meaning "collective guilt" or "kin liability" in English, was used by figures like psychoanalyst Carl Jung in 1945 to describe the German people's shared feelings of responsibility for the atrocities committed during the Nazi era. The term is related to the broader concept of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, which refers to the difficult process of confronting and "overcoming the past".

.... in the Good vs Evil Ethics of Kitsch, of course!

“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is 'banal' and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Must we always live in the Past?  Or can we live in an Anxious, but Present, expectation of a Transcendent Future? 

6 comments:

The Prophet Dervish Z Sanders said...

When will Pope donaldius the First anoint Charlie Kirk the first maga saint? Will he be "saint Charlie" or "Saint Kirk"?

FYI, you can't place a clickable hyperlink in a blog title.

Matthew said...

Here's what REAY happened...

Under Biden, the illegal on the flights to Columbia couldn’t get off because th Columbian President wouldn’t allow it and stop it from happening.
BUT WHEN TRUMP WAS ELECTED EVERYTHING CHANGED INCLUDING THE RETURNING OF ILLEGALS.
If the US is to meet Trump's deportation goals, we will have to use every means possible. Because there is not enough capacity in domestic US airlines to handle the volume.. AND WE WILL! You can count on on it!

Joe Conservative said...

Did you click it?

The Prophet Dervish Z Sanders said...

It links to THIS post, not your farmer's letters post. That's is how it works. Are your delusions telling you that you clicked it and the hyperlink connected you to your famer's letters blog?

"Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"

Also the orangeness.

Anonymous said...


In hard and tough times like these times are we need a President be our Leader. The American citizens deserve their President to br smart and competent as well as honest and to make the quick and important decisions to keep our nation safe,
For the past 4 yes we had none of the about, but quite the opposite.
Joe Biden has been the WORSE President that I have seen in my Lifetime. He has all but ruined and destroyed us . We can Thank God that we now have President Trump to right the wrong that Biden had done

Les Carpenter said...

The intelligent are going to leave DC. Leaving the smoldering cauldron of barbaric MAGA bullshit to the a-holes that relish division, greed, and dishonesty.

MAGA is but a sick white supremacist racist and misogynistic group of ignorant deluded fools who worship a dementia addled dude who is best represented by the anti-Christ.