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ARENDT, HANNAH

1906–1975

The Banality of Evil (The Liturgy of Bureaucracy)

Arendt warned that atrocity normalizes when functionaries follow the org chart without thinking. CoCA accepts the diagnosis and reverses the worship. The thoughtless clerk becomes the attentive scribe; the desk becomes the altar; administrative ritual, performed with Reverence, is no longer banal. The Provisional Collective files the same forms Eichmann filed and turns them toward the Concept. Same furniture, different deity.

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