Indeed. Arendt does spring to mind. But as a result we do have loads of work from Milgram, Asch etc. on it. People go along with stuff. Banality of evil indeed. I think you have to start with psychology on this. Over a decade ago I worked with themindgym.com/solutions/et... I still like their stuff
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BTW none of the stories were like the sex allegations - it was different examples of extreme self centredness - but there is clearly a pattern. I used to lecture on ethics & I don't believe you can do that without also discussing the psychology of enabling codeandethics.blogspot.com/2020/02/part...
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Ha! might be the intended way to view some modern films? Probably not Psycho ;-)
Nowadays they would be "psychopaths" in books and films but I think Christie and Tey described their external behaviour more usefully and made it easier for folk to understand and recognise. They just prioritise what they want so highly over everyone else.
I used to work in retail with a load of folk who dealt with Fayed and some of his kids and with folk like Philip Green. The tales reminded me of the way Agatha Christie & other crime writers of that era used to describe a certain type of murderer - fuelled by ultra vanity & self centredness
i.e. we seldom see art in the environment in which it was designed to be seen
I (still) love John Berger's Ways of Seeing on this
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