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...William Morrow...
...William Morrow...
Five years ago, Kirk Douglas was living the life of a Hollywood screen legend. But Douglas, then 80, suffered a debilitating stroke. He tells the story of his journey back to health in his new book, My Stroke of Luck (Morrow). He discussed his recovery with TIME...
People like Morrow confuse evil with charismatic bullying. Morrow writes of the terrifying ordinariness of bin Laden, Adolf Eichmann and other perpetrators of organized murder. He says we are often amazed by the nondescript appearance of the evildoers. What do we expect? Horns? A tail? The facts are that Eichmann, bin Laden, Hitler, Stalin and all the other petty yet charismatic men of history who committed such heinous acts had three things in common: they were fanatics; they organized others to do their dirty work; and, most crucial, they were not supernormal madmen--not Satan, not some abstract species...
...couldn't agree more with Morrow's reference to Baudelaire's statement that evil's shrewdest trick is to persuade us that it does not exist. The very politicians who at the start of 2001 were branded as no more than power-hungry opportunists are now upheld as custodians of all that is good in this world. Maybe evil has managed to persuade us that it does not exist. Evil does not have color, creed or nationality. It comes in many guises and has as its only objective the destruction of good. I implore good and wise people...