Good & Evil, Imagined and Real

Simone Weil Offers Us a Helpful Reality Check

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied, while real evil is dull, monotonous, deserted and boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, wonderful, intoxicating.

— Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace, chapter 15 (translated by Carlos Kennedy)

In the Disney animated movie Pinocchio, the naive little animated puppet, Pinocchio, is promised all sorts of …