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The danger of banality is an insidious one.
Banality weakens our intellectual, spiritual and ethical muscles, rendering us flabby thinkers, unable or unwilling to chew over the difficult matter of experience and make it part of us.
The connection between banality of evil and the evil of banality is the danger of a surrender of our human powers of discrimination.
We always need to be discriminating, and we always need to be working on refining our powers of discrimination, or one day we might find we can no longer distinguish between a human being and a widget.


Harry Eyres, the dangers of banality, Finantial Times



[Nota bem:
Insiduos means: (of something unpleasant or dangerous) gradually and secretly causing harm.
Pois bem... Quem tem razão, quem é? :)
Pois é!]

D.G.