Statement:

According to Hannah Arendt, understanding is an endless endeavor in which - despite the versatility and constant changes - we deal with reality. Understanding is somehow, specifically being alive as a human. But we suffer from evil and we need to contemplate to give meaning to life, despite its malevolence and conflicts. And to not let the distance between life and death disappear. The incomprehensibility of evil means to find the human mind and conscience overtaken with an innate and non-obliterable weakness and defect, and to believe mankind is helpless and desperate in preventing the recurrence of the human incident. To believe in the ineffability of evil is a threat to existence and makes this world unbearable and unlivable for fragile humans and their feeble bones and skins.

Evil is a comprehensible matter and that is why it is preventable. Evil is not a superhuman, diabolical, mythical, or supernatural force. Evil is understandable, therefore we can hinder its recurrence; and because of this, humans are responsible for their actions and their condition.Then why is it that man still attempts concealment?
Excerpts inspired by Men in Dark Times by Hannah Arendt