The banality of dishonesty
In Hannah Arendt ’ s book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil which she wrote after reporting for the New Yorker in 1962 on the execution of Adolf Eichmann of the Shutzstaffel (SS) for his role in the Holocaust. She explains how “ everything ” had become morally permissible and humanly possible in the politics of the Third Reich. The banality of evil depicts how career oriented bureaucrats committed egregious crimes without any trace of compunction because it had become commonplace. As far as Adolf Eichmann and his counterparts were concerned carrying out orders even if it led to mass murder wasn ’ t anything extraordinary. It was neither fiendish n or monstrous to them. Arendt ’ s asserted that “ Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it — the quality of temptation. ” I used this anecdote to point out the chilling parallels that could be drawn between the Ghanaian society and the central theme in Arendt ’ s
