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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