From Augustine to the Joker, an examination of the psychology behind perversity.
The philosopher Agnes Callard tells us that, sometimes, when she’s on a deserted road at night, she likes to walk on the double yellow lines. One evening, she decided to lie there in the middle of the road. She kept her arms pinned to her sides so that cars could pass on her left and right. A policeman approached, alarmed and confused.
”: “Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”, the philosopher David Sussman published an article called “For Badness’ Sake.” In it, he defined perverse actions as those undertaken when our normal desire for the good—perhaps the moral good, or maybe just the narrower good of self-interest—is reversed.
, titled “How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion.” It described those paradoxical moments when the effort to avoid a thought makes it more likely to bubble up into consciousness. Wegner was inspired by an observation made by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in an essay called “”: Dostoyevsky writes that trying not to think about a polar bear makes it more likely that you will think of one.
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