Beyond Good And Evil Part II

It is hard to pin a definition on ‘evil'; it doesn’t exactly lend itself to scientifically precise characterisation, especially as the term is often used in a religious/philosophical sense. On a more personal level, when we say that someone is evil, the more technical terms of sociopath or psychopath are more often employed to describe their ‘evil’ character. But we generally categorise such people as evil by their actions, which consist of malign acts, calculated to do psychological or physical harm, where there is often no clear motive. It seems to us that the mere perpetration of such malign, intentional harm is the motive: evil for evil’s sake, gratification in doing harm to others, causing suffering and pain.

God knows we’ve seen plenty of sociopaths and psychopaths crawl out of the woodwork these past three years, courtesy of ‘leadership’ on Covid and I can definitely say that some of those psychopaths seem to have enjoyed inflicting suffering upon people. Fauci, Trudeau, Dan Andrews, Jacinda Ardern, Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson, Susan Michie, to name but a few. Then we have whole organisations which are so corrupt and compromised that their joint actions also seem to fall into the category of intentionally malign: the CDC/FDA/NIH/MHRA (UK)/TGA (Australia). As their acts of harm become ever more outrageous, irrational and unjustifiable, we are led to conclude that these institutions are also inherently evil.

It’s been a real eye opener. Who knew there were so many people in positions of power and influence who were unhinged sociopaths, grinning, homicidal nutjobs who appeared to actually derive pleasure from inflicting pain and suffering by imprisoning people, depriving them of social contact, of life-saving medical care, depriving relatives of the chance to be with loved ones whilst they were dying in hospital (often from the administration of lethal drugs, neglect or inappropriate treatment), psychologically torturing children and forcing millions of people to take part in what has been a lethal medical experiment? This is not counting the media figures, politicians, doctors and celebs who took great pleasure in inciting hatred and division by casting out the unvaccinated as ‘unclean’.

Who knew? We know now, and if evil is as evil does, these people were and probably still are functionally evil. They came to us in flocks of Lesser Spotted Stalins, Hitlers, Maos and Pol Pots, wave upon demented wave of the little buggers, who made our lives an absolute misery for over two years and have bequeathed to our children a nightmarish future. The thing is - we let them do it, and many of us even joined in with the enforcement of tyranny. Evil penetrated to the very heart of civil society and engulfed even friends and family. It served evil to ban relatives from Christmas gatherings because they weren’t vaccinated; it was evil to mask children and to force inject them with a dangerous experimental ‘vaccine’ which was not medically indicated for their age group. Parents did that even to their own kids, supposing it to be ‘for the common good’, of which Nietzsche says, in Beyond Good and Evil:

One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

The feelings of devotion, self-sacrifice for one's neighbor, the whole morality of self-denial must be questioned mercilessly and taken to court.... There is too much charm and sugar in these feelings of 'for others,' 'not for myself,' for us not to need to become doubly suspicious at this point and to ask: 'are these not perhaps-seductions?

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good—the atavism of an older ideal.

The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.

The ‘bad’ people were those who defied lockdowns, who refused to wear stupid, ineffective masks on public transport and in shops and who did not succumb to pressure to get vaccinated ‘to protect themselves and others’. Those people, who suffered discrimination and harassment, sometimes even physical violence, at the hands of the ‘good’ people, are now being rebaptized as simply ‘right’, whereas the do-gooders were wrong; very, very wrong. ‘Good’ and ‘evil’, wrong and right, are subject to the vagaries of transient social trends, but in fact they are invariant in the wider sense. Which is why, if we wish to glimpse beyond the fixed polar opposites of good and evil, to gain insight into why evil is evil and good is good, we must radically alter our perception of reality. Some quotes from Jung:

John Leake on Peter McCullough’s Courageous Discourse blog, recently attempted to explain why we have so much difficulty in understanding the world, in particular the seeming chaotic nature of events.

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He says:

At the same time, we have discussed the irrational and nonsensical behavior we have observed on a mass scale among both state and private actors. While fear has played an obvious role, it alone cannot explain the bizarre and malevolent drama we have seen.

He then quotes Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust:

I am the spirit that constantly negates!
And rightly so; for everything that comes into being,
Deserves to perish;
It would be better if nothing came into being.
Everything that you call sin,
Destruction, and evil,
Is my true element.

Leake then writes:

Mephistopheles seems to embody the strange fact that humans may participate in corrupt and destructive enterprises that don’t really make sense. No particular motive such as the desire for money or power can quite explain it. After all, what is the gratification of acquiring money and exercising power for old men who already have tons of both and few years left to live?

Well quite, we cannot discern motive in such irrational but deeply malign behaviour therefore we label it as ‘evil’. But did you spot the contradiction in what Mephistopheles was saying? He said that he is the spirit which constantly negates but then went on to affirm and justify a motive by saying: “Everything that comes into being, deserves to perish”. So he’s bad, bad as a bone, always, but for a ‘good’ reason! In this respect he resembles closely Kali Ma, the Hindu Goddess of Destruction.

So there is motive behind the Evil Spirit Mephistopheles. We mere humans cannot perceive that motive; all we see is the seemingly irrational, motiveless chaos and destruction, perpetrated often by human beings apparently without conscience, and we call that ‘evil’, we label it as ‘other’, but recent horrifying events have demonstrated to us that this ‘other’ is uncomfortably close to home and is quite often what we used to think of as ‘good’. Indeed it has seemed to many of us that so called ‘civil’ society and its institutions, supposedly set up for the benefit of that civil society, have themselves become instruments of a profound and far-reaching evil, forcing us to re-evaluate what civil society is, or was.