This is why evil is seductive, because its emptiness draws people towards it. The mark of evil is an inability to produce. Evil is sterility, and most bad habits (TV, pornography etc) are non-generative. On top of this, it destroys because it cannot create things itself.
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In the political sphere, the extreme manifestations are Nazism and Communism. Communists basically think mass murder is acceptable to create a technological utopia. Nazis thinks mass murder is required to rebalance the natural order.
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The common theme is a disinterest in what already exists and a disinterest in generation. Everything generative is thrown into “the movement”, which is actually sterile. It is true that technology and the natural order require sacrifice & suffering.
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But Communists and Nazis extend this suffering and sacrifice into simple mass murder, purposeless mass murder—eventually the entire point of the system becomes mass murder. You’re killing for socialism or Aryanism or whatever—but really it’s a complete emptiness
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A common mark of activists on the far right and far left is childlessness. They are non-generative in the most elementary sense, and they throw this non-generative nature into empty and envious and ultimately fatal political projects.
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People accuse me of this because they don’t understand negative criticism is generative.
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Have you ever read any of Eric Harris's journals? Very instructive on the nature of evil. You've done a good job here articulating how evil develops within and through the great secular mass movements of the 20th c. but we must also note how it festers in an individual's soul.
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