LIQUID EVIL

There is nothing new about evil/ it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that c haracterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the hands of states claiming monopolies on the means of coercion and using the means at their disposal to pursue their ends ends tha t were at times horrifically brutal and barbaric. In our contemporary liquid-modern societies, by contrast, evil has become altogeth er more p...[Leer más]