Vignettes of Evil
Evil is the term used to characterize insurmountable otherness and incorrigibly problematic behavior. The different ways we imagine evil affects the way we imagine other people our fears and our politics. What follows are some sketches and responses to evil drawn from pundits and literature and elsewhere. Hopefully this will be useful to anyone thinking about the different ways of thinking about evil and all its varieties. From the movie Adaptation : [At a seminar, Charlie Kaufman has asked McKee for advice on his new screenplay in which 'nothing much happens'] Robert McKee: Nothing happens in the world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day. There's genocide, war, corruption. Every fucking day, somewhere in the world, somebody sacrifices his life to save someone else. Every fucking day, someone, somewhere makes a conscious decision to destroy someone else. People find love, people lose it. For Christ's sake, a child watches her mother bea...