<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # This is where sentimental descriptions of evil... > This is where sentimental descriptions of evil begin to look childish. {{We imagine evil arriving foaming at the mouth, when it often arrives assessing the room. We imagine brutality as chaos, when it is frequently optimization. We imagine the savage screaming, when the savage has usually gone quiet, because it has located the precise moment at which resistance will be weakest.}} {{The nightmare is not that an animal can become violent; every dog owner knows that. The nightmare is that violence can become strategic, that it can be scheduled, staffed and rationed, and that the organism doing the scheduling can be sitting across a dinner table from you with excellent table manners.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “This is where sentimental descriptions of evil begin to look childish. We imagine evil arriving foaming at the mouth, when it often arrives assessing the room. We imagine brutality as chaos, when it is frequently optimization. We imagine the savage screaming, when the savage has usually gone quiet, because it has located the precise moment at which resistance will be weakest. The nightmare is not that an animal can become violent; every dog owner knows that. The nightmare is that violence can become strategic, that it can be scheduled, staffed and rationed, and that the organism doing the scheduling can be sitting across a dinner table from you with excellent table manners.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-sentimental-descriptions-evil-excellent-table-manners ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->