What is evil? Someone asked me this last night. I feel this is an instinctive matter for me, but generally I’d say evil is an absence that is non-generative & destructive. There’s an absence that can draw people towards it though seduction, but there’s an absence that destroys.
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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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