Kenneth McKendrick

At the borders of your system of classification, at the borders of your language, at the borders of the way you look at the world, there's going to be sort of blurry areas.

And that blurry area, that's dirt.

And so dirt appears whenever things aren't orderly.

And so you have, I've got my water glass here and I've got the mic and I've got my phone and a computer.

Everything is in its proper place.

But there's a knowing thing on my desk.

The plant is actually leaking over, over top of my phone.

And this is the thing.

It's like, I'll move the plant off the table.

I'll move the leaf of the plants without even thinking about it.

Like it's not evil, but there's no way it gets to stay there.

And then all of a sudden, wait a second.

When we're thinking about evil, it's like the things that we don't even register, the things that simply get swept away, that just are discarded with a brush of my hand, right?

Like I'm not even going to register it as evil.

At least, you know, very often if you're identified as evil or an immoral person, you'll get a trial.

Very often we're willing to do that with people that we think are immoral or evil or people that we call criminal.

We'll give them lawyers, but dirt doesn't get a lawyer.

Dirt gets eliminated.

It's funny.

I don't know if I've, you know, in 20 years, I don't know if I've ever been asked, is this person evil?