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 …
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