Banality is really just “only solid ground”, or only Kun Zhi. What this means is frozen energy.
The reference of course is to Eichmann and Hannah Arendt. What I would suggest is that dullness is really a lack of energy flow, and ANYTHING can be contained in frozen energy, just like frozen ice.
What I am finding for myself is that with Kum Nye chunks of energy will peel off, and go into dispersion as thawing nuggets; and what comes out eventually is very powerful, and sometimes vaguely nightmarish. Those nuggets contain vast amounts of information and latent more or less emotionally holographic (what does that mean? I don’t know) content. Big pictures. Large expanses, seas of images and feelings.
Dull people are stuck people. Dull people are emotionally constipated. We are all born to be interesting and interested and curious and creative.
Evil is really emotional iciness. We’ve always seen that imagistically. Cold people are frozen, and frozen means that somewhere in their lives, many Rosebuds got locked up in places they now cannot get to, and have forgotten about. Remember, Rosebud was his dying image.