This article is an indictment of the UK post Brexit, but it touches on issues with the global order much deeper rooted than that. bylinetimes.com/2022/01/11/the…
The author a former diplomat says she was triggered to write the article watching events in Kazakhstan. And specifically the shoot to kill orders issued by the President, a former senior UN official, not that this was what upset her. 
Her list of things which upset her is much more run-of-the milk, things we now take for granted, things which for the most part are based in, standard operating procedure.
Which brought to my mind the “banality of evil”.
Which brought to my mind the “banality of evil”.
The evils which plague this world are here before they are accepted. They are profitable. Addressing them would require political reform, undermine bank profits & practices like resource stripping of poor nations, things which leaders/elites in the west have no appetite for.
And things which if we really think about it, our power systems do not want the world’s less developed governments to really address, because it might get in the way of the corruption which we rely on to exploit them.
So yes banal. But also deeply evil.
We have a lot of work to do.
We have a lot of work to do.
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