Talk Cocktail

Good...Evil...Indifferent


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It has been argued that more evil is committed in the name of banality, than purpose.  Certainly a look at our current golden age of television, confirms that. Don Draper,  Walter White, and Tony Soprano never really seem to make up their minds about being good or evil.
So what’s the zeitgeist of our culture that separates hero from villain and what's different today than say in the 90’s or even the 50’s?
Who better to ask than Chuck Klosterman, The Ethicist for the NY Times Magazine, and the bestselling author of seven previous books, including Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs no looks into our confusion about good and evil in I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
My conversation with Chuck Klosterman:

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