Contents No headings. When Asked about the Prime Motivations of Evil:To properly execute a worthy debate as to the prime motivations for evil, I must first ask you to subtly shift for a moment from a dualistic viewpoint, to a more unified frame of reference. It is understood that this will not be an easy task for any average person. We have been conditioned for so long by human kinds outward manifestation of its universal drive toward survival of the fittest. It is the fittest that perpetually sit at the wheel - maintaining their status quo, wielding their dichotomous power, generation after generation. Heads of all manners of religious order have lorded this over the heads of the masses since before the patriarchy took its hold. Without imposing this brand of thinking, our captors would hold no power over us. How could they possibly feign goodness without evil to measure themselves against? With what would they intimidate and fill our minds with if not this illusion of constant impending conflict? Fanning the flame of our predisposition to our unconscious fear has consistently weakened our countenance. Our internal world soon learns to keep in time with this external conditioning, and in this sense we are rendered into a state of ineffectual distraction - a prisoner to the the institution, if you will. Am I trying to say that evil exists only in our minds, so that to categorize a person or an act as 'evil' would also be part of that illusion? To proclaim such a thing would seem to nullify the hurtful effects of the evil in question. The authoritative voice that lives inside all of us screams of our need to be 'kept' in check to remain civilized. This evil seems to be a cumulative thing. The more hurt one causes the more evil they are, and the more severe the punishment. This is called justice, if your course of logic follows suit with societal norms. My point is not to blame the concept of evil on the manipulative trickery of the elite. Again, to draw this conclusion would only perpetuate the same mentality. In our minds, the evildoers would then be identified - judged, and punished accordingly. The process itself only serves to illuminate the projection of extreme opposites onto the screen of our consciousness and brings us no closer to true understanding. Instead, let's try to sidestep the temptation to react on autopilot for a moment - and contemplate the idea that there is a simple, natural action toward the most productive behavior to render the wrong doing, and the wrong doer powerless. To fully understand this we must first examine this universal 'machine' of oppression. It's evolution has hid behind the guise of the civilized advancement of mankind for centuries. The inner workings are comprised of a good measure of mass confusion and the propagation of the idea that an enemy force represents a threat to societal security. Those that move to follow serve as its rubber wheels - going round and round, bending to the will of the road. We have all been taught to attach ourselves to this imaginary construct that pounds at the resolve of our true nature. We are taught to respect authority and quietly walk in single file in time with societies meter. Even today, we as a society are continually creating new ways to segregate ourselves from each other in some quest to achieve the 'fittest' status. What we do instead only manages to continue to weaken the very support structure in which our independence solely lies. We become lifeless puppets to a cruel master - pawns in a game that we have no idea we're playing. We've allowed our natural ability to lead ourselves and our primordial instincts for survival to be snuffed out, and at our own expense. A fitting example of this, in oversimplified terms, can be seen in the movie 'The Village'. As a tact of third person narrative, the audience is taken in from the perspective of the village people. We are led through the daily life of the village and along the way, discover that the collective reality of the people is steeped in pure terror. They have been taught that life just outside the village is dangerous, filled with unimaginable monsters. These monsters will only ransack the village at night of course, so there has to be an assigned person to keep watch. As human imaginations go, the myth compounds itself with all manner of wild musings from the watchtower. The 'elite' of the village are represented in the churches hierarchy, and ironically - they hold all the control over the alleged truce between the monsters and the people of the village. As you can probably conclude yourselves, it is revealed that the 'monsters' seen in the village and as shadows in the night are really just the churches minions serving to perpetuate the fear, and therefore the control. With this example in mind, let's imagine for a moment that there was no need to segregate good from evil - that the perceived threat was rendered powerless. A paradigm shift, if you will - from a good/bad, best/worst mentality - to a conscious reality that recognizes both, but attaches itself to neither. In the absence of the abyss of endless characterization that follows the dichotomous mind - there would be only motive to understand human nature in an effort to improve it as a whole. Each individual side of the moral spectrum would be viewed simultaneously, and experienced as two sides of the same coin, one not having more of a hold than the other. Societal rules and prevailing belief systems would begin to merge and rise to a standard of natural process - without the imposition of power in precarious balance. Such suggestion of anarchy idea would send the voice of our collective conscience all around the world into a moral frenzy, ready to uprise against such perceived indifference. Still. When asked what the prime motivations of evil are, I have to answer - our own illusions brewed in a bitter brew of dualistic reality. It is entirely our choice how we perceive the world, just as there are a million different interpretations for a single human experience. From a more unified perspective we would no longer spend our time debating such things, fear would cease to rule our hearts, and human kind may actually be able to move from categorization - to catalyst. |