Bauman: In 2011, Anders Behring Breivik committed two mass murders: one targeting the government and contingent civilian population, the other against the inmates of a summer camp. He explained his crimes in advance in an electronically published manifesto sounding the alarm against Islam and feminism joining forces in “creating a European cultural suicide.” What strikes a thoughtful reader is the total absence of a logical link between the cause and effect: Islam, feminism on one side, and the random victims of mass murder on the other. We are being quietly adjusted to this logic-defying, indeed mind-boggling, state of affairs. Breivik is anything but an exceptional, one-off blunder of nature, or a solitary monster.
Source : ‘Evil Has Been Trivialized’: A Final Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman
