You have heard the news, a new version of what Hannah Arendt wrote about in 1964 when she formed the phrase we never forgot "The Banality of Evil".
It might be useful to summarize that situation again. Eichmann had been found and taken to Isreal to stand trial amid sensational publicity, this was going to be the Trial of the Century. It was a Show Trial instead, one we have completely forgotten.
In the same way, we will soon forget yesterday's incident.
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