Good and evil

There was a political doctrine in the 20th Century (1900s) that advocated and preserved evil in the world for the simple reason that eventually there would need to be an Apocalypse of sorts, for a short period of time, after which everything would get better. People were told in prophecies all over the world to expect that coming formula.

The doctrine could even be found in mainstream political parties in some countries.

Sometimes things fall apart and putting them back together in conscientious, inspired, and well-intentioned ways is the best humans can do for one another and themselves. Sometimes it creates necessary innovation, or just convinces us that best practices are best. That can be one of the main mechanisms of things getting better.

But promoting evil sounds circular and wrong-headed, and it is wrong. It’s a clear example of folly, and not the minor sort of folly. That’s the attitude that’s encouraged people in modern times to opine that good and evil should be or must be balanced in equal measure, seemingly on the principle that balance itself is a good or necessary thing. That is cribbed directly from fiction, one assumes. In reality, civilization routinely rejects evil, enough so that the average person can breathe and relax. The real and correct balance between good and evil is choosing and promoting the good while constantly beating back any evil and keeping the ravages of evil away from humanity and our sphere of influence.

For most of human history, people acknowledged that any evil allowed to run rampant was a state of imbalance.

The Apocalypse was almost certainly going to happen at some point (or something that felt sufficiently apocalyptic, although it wasn’t necessarily going to look like it does in the movies, and right now it looks like this, and should definitely get no worse), and technically speaking, the transition between a decaying modern world and a futuristic one could’ve gone smoothly. But humans and change, ya know?

We’re on the precipice of the futuristic world, and it is going to be one of the most inspiring times in human history if we can pull off preserving what’s good about our systems and infrastructures and building upon them in ways that will start to seem quite natural soon. Preserving human rights is fundamental on all sides. Systems and the people in them must shore up their ethics as soon as possible, or the Apocalypse will not necessarily be just a temporary hiccup, but something even worse, which would be extremely tragic.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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