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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

the problem of worldwide evil

everyone has a choice between good and evil; that is the only redeeming potential of being human. Let's be honest; our world is pretty evil. Why? A tiny percentage willfully actively choose evil and get a thrill out of conscious evil. A somewhat larger percentage of people are able to 'sell out' and actually somehow profit in a collateral sort of way by submitting to the system in whatever form (religious cults, celebrities, military, etc). They may tell themselves that they are not evil (although somewhere deep inside knowing that the system they serve, pay for, and perpetuate is evil). The vast majority compromises with evil without getting any real benefit out of it at all. Actually, they sell their lives and youth and energy and creativity away for evil. There are a variety of rationales for this: 1. Fear--a person who fears what will happen if they stand up to evil (pretty rare in my opinion) 2. Stupidity or lack of discernment--a person who lacks the intellectual faculty to recognize even thinly veiled evil and it's effect on the world (somewhat rare). 3. Resignation to evil--someone who feels that it is pointless to resist evil and that they are powerless against it. ( more common case IMO) 4. Laziness/Apathy--someone who realizes evil, knows they could do something about it, but instead willfully supresses this information and focuses on the mundane distractions they have available (drugs, media hypnotism, self-deception, denial). Then there is the only real resistance to evil-- a tiny group of people who a. is intelligent enough to distinguish evil and recognize its pernicious effects b. has the moral will to resist evil c. engages in direct confrontation with evil and ignorance by doing active good and weakening the influence of evil over one's peers. d. repudiates evil within themselves in any form and experiences all the power and healing which accrues by making this decision. I have met some of these types, and even (very occasionally) been one of these people. This type of person appears magical and inspirational to others and appears to achieve something miraculous, despite being told repeatedly by the compromisers that what they intend is impossible, wrong, rude, foolhardy, etc. etc. etc. The future of humanity lies not with the compromisers and toadies and sellouts, but with those who absoutely repudiate evil and corruption on every level and deny it its power over them and over society as a whole. Now here is the really sad part: these people throughout history are often betrayed, and scapegoated by the very people they would seek to save, who eliminate, undermine, and marginalize any influence that makes them realize that they have wasted their lives compromising with evil. Kill the messenger. . .this is the motto that holds humanity at a standstill, living in a stone age level of development, living as livestock and slaves to a tiny elite who monopolize every natural resource, energy, wealth, knowledge, medicine, and even the right to life itself. How will you respond when your conscience speaks to you? will you violently silence and accuse it? Will you listen to it? will you change yourself? Will you attempt to free your fellow humans from ignorance and servitude? These are the questions i ask myself. What say you?

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