Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people
are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals
itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in
the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual
turning away of one's ethical gaze. Evil and moral blindness lurk
in what we take as normality and in the triviality and banality of
everyday life, and not just in the abnormal and exceptional
cases.
The distinctive kind of moral blindness that characterizes our
societies is brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas
Donskis through the concept of adiaphora: the placing of certain
acts or categories of human beings outside of the universe of moral
obligations and evaluations. Adiaphora implies an attitude of
indifference to what is happening in the world - a moral numbness.
In a life where rhythms are dictated by ratings wars and box-office
returns, where people are preoccupied with the latest gadgets and
forms of gossip, in our 'hurried life' where attention rarely has
time to settle on any issue of importance, we are at serious risk
of losing our sensitivity to the plight of the other. Only
celebrities or media stars can expect to be noticed in a society
stuffed with sensational, valueless information.This probing
inquiry into the fate of our moral sensibilities will be of great
interest to anyone concerned with the most profound changes that
are silently shaping the lives of everyone in our contemporary
liquid-modern world.
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