Evil is tame because there are only a certain number of emotional possibilities. Goodness is wild, in that you can wander wherever you want, as there are no boundaries. It is much more creative, and has a much greater possible experiential range. People miss this since evil people can do anything they want, but in their inner lives they are quite dull. They are “Rote-arian”. They are creatures of habit, and it is like poking someone in the same place over and over, or a record that gets stuck in one spot. It is anger expressed in countless ways, countless times. This is the root of Arendt’s “banality of evil”.
I read “Eichman in Jerusalem”, by the way, and found it vastly overrated. I think that’s where she coined the phrase. That was many years ago, though, so perhaps my memory is faulty.
Edit: I do have a job, for what it’s worth, which varies from few to too many hours a week. I’m currently in the few period, and taking some notes off my voicemail, which is why there are so many posts. I just figured out how to cut and paste them, too. You can’t normally do it in Compose, but you can in Edit HTML.