Bush vs. Evil
June 28, 2004 @ 1:44 pm
I enjoyed Fahrenheit 9/11 for the most part, but one topic the movie didn't address was Bush's perception of evil. He seems to think that it is something external, something manifested in terrorist "evil-doers" and "axis of evil" nations. In his mind, if we can eliminate these groups from the world, good will triumph. This is the same view that Communists took toward the bourgeoisie and that Nazis took toward Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals. In each case, evil was embodied in a certain group of people. The irony was that in trying to stamp out evil in this manner, the supposed forces of good ended up committing truly evil acts. In fact, there is good and evil in everyone. It is not something that can be eliminated from the world, since that mode of thinking has led to some of the greatest crimes of history.
