Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Formalism

"The deepest evil in the totalitarian system is precisely that which makes it work: its programmed, single-minded monotonous efficiency; bureaucratic formalism , the dueling daily service, standard, boring, letter-perfect, generalities, uniform. No thought and no responsiveness. Eichmann. Form without anima becomes formalism . . . forms without luster , without the presence of body. "

- James Hillman

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