https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2 Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2017-09-27 17:51:50 UTC 2017-09-27 18:23:42 UTC hello@padlet.com abbadessam https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191800192 Write your favorite sentence or two from "When Evil is Cool]]> 2017-09-27 17:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191800192 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191812735 These three narratives cannot aspire to tragic or epic proportions. Their intimacy, combined with a certain mystery of the inexplicable, gives them the status of moral enigmas]]> 2017-09-27 18:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191812735 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813333 And in each case evil has a strong presence, a perverse stature not reduced or redeemed by any other force in the story.]]> 2017-09-27 18:15:34 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813333 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813462 And in each case evil has a strong presence, a preverse stature not reduced or redeemed by any other force in the story. Moreover, each story obliges us to ponder an implied greatness of evil -- it's claim on our admiration as a dynamic element of reality -- and an implied greatness in evil ]]> 2017-09-27 18:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813462 abbadessam https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813570 "... each story obliges us to ponder an implied greatness of evil- its claim on our admiration as a dynamic element of reality- and an implied greatness in evil of certain]]> 2017-09-27 18:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813570 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813610 "Toward the end of "Experience," one of his most skeptical and disillusioned essays, Emerson made a remarkable statement about evil: "We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others. We permit all things to ourselves, and that which we call sin in others is experiment for us.]]> 2017-09-27 18:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813610 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813658 2017-09-27 18:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813658 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813747 Let us beware of applying our intellects to condoning evil or to making ourselves into "splendidly wicked" people.]]> 2017-09-27 18:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813747 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813798 Evil is easy. Its forms are infinite; good is almost unique. ]]> 2017-09-27 18:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813798 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813879 "Evil is not overcome. Evil is accepted and admired."]]> 2017-09-27 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813879 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813936 "This instant of mental voluptuousness stands for a reverse epiphany, a negative transcendence toward baseness and inhumanity" ]]> 2017-09-27 18:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813936 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813988 this instant of mental voluptuousness stands for a reverse epiphany, a negative transcendence toward baseness and inhumanity.]]> 2017-09-27 18:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191813988 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814642 In each case evil has a strong presence, a perverse stature not reduced or redeemed by any other force in the story.]]> 2017-09-27 18:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814642 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814723 "Elsewhere Pascal wrote insistently that man's greatness resides in his capacity to think: we are frail reeds, but reeds capable of thought"]]> 2017-09-27 18:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814723 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814811 ...nothing suggests that this film sees around or beyond the horrible actions it portrays with the utmost cool. By depicting evil in this fashion neutralizes it—absorbs it into ordinary life, broken by a few thrills and laughs, and desensitizes us to evil]]> 2017-09-27 18:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814811 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814861 What, then, is this unexpected and even inappropriate “greatness of soul,” summoned from nowhere to explain a particularly rare form of evil?]]> 2017-09-27 18:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814861 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814947 "We cannot afford such blindness to history and such naiveté as to embrace the morality of the cool." ]]> 2017-09-27 18:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191814947 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191815086 2017-09-27 18:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191815086 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191815532 "We believe in ourselves as we do not believe in others. We permit all things to ourselves, and that which we call sin in others is experiment for us."]]> 2017-09-27 18:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191815532 https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191816118 We cannot afford such blindness to history and such naïveté 
as to embrace the morality of the cool]]> 2017-09-27 18:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/abbadessam/h01rrl676sj2/wish/191816118