 But rather that we should understand that those actions were neither monstrous, nor sadistic.In understanding Eichmann, Arendt argues, we come to understand a greater truth about the nature of evil, that individuals participate in atrocities from an inability to critically examine blind allegiance to ideologies that provide a sense of meaning in a lonely and alienating world.Thus, she concludes, thoughtless zealotry is the face of evil in the modern world.