recognize evil

It is more often than not dressed mundanely, not extravagantly.
Its appearance ordinary, and with manners that are unpleasant yet could hardly count as malignant.
If it wasn’t for the ice cold shivers they gave you.

But beware most of all, if you feel lost, furious or sick, and no one is near.

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If I am not mistaken, it was the movie Unbreakable – which as sort of a random ps, I just read was expanded into a superhero trilogy with Split (2016) and Glass (2019) –
where the villain, a man whom appeared vulnerable because his bones broke at the slightest pressure, explained how villains never know they’re villains.

A lesson we should all remember.

The entire idea behind right and wrong, is that there is an awareness in the do-er, about the ethics behind their wrongdoings.
That they are running this grand scheme, a layer on top of the real reality, of lies and deceit. All to willingly pull to them money, power, access and exclusivity that does not belong to them!

And there is this unspoken expectation that if we find out and call them out, it will come with some sort of gratification.
Like catching someone cheating with an ace up their sleeve.

But like the villain in the movie Unbreakable said:
Villains do not know they’re villains.
In their head, everything makes sense.

So it is pointless to have a conversation with a villain, because you will never get the apology, the remorse, nor the change in behavior you want because they will simply deny it.
Either because they have buried their memory of it;
Because they have rationalized it;
Or because the consequences of admitting their wrongdoings are worse than what can happen if they keep denying it was their ace and their sleeve.
They just burrowed the vest from someone at the local casino.

The crap you will hear, my friends.

So I never call someone out over anything-
I just pull up my boundaries, so that they no longer have access to the thing they’re stealing or acquiring through me.
And if I can’t, then I acknowledge that I am in danger, should practice great caution and make it a longer term project to change the situation, so that it can be done more safely.

But whatever you do, do not deny the evilness of what you see, just because the person who is doing it, is not aware of it.
The absence of awareness is the hallmark of evil.

But the greatest trick is even less costume-dress-up-devil worthy, and even more mundane.
And for this I have another movie to quote, although its quote is not a 100% match to the point I will be making.
But the quote is too good not to use.

 “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”

The Usual Suspects

The biggest evil, in the sense that it is hardest to detect, avoid, explain and nearly impossible to fight is when no one is there, to take responsibility for it.

If I would ever give a TED Talk, I may choose this subject.
The nature of evil is that no one is responsible, because there is no one there.
So in a way, the greatest evil, is that IT exists, but it no longer has a bearer!

It is a ghost.

So what is this phantom evil?

Usually the blame is put on a large and impenetrable organization.

Following examples may be specific for The Netherlands, but I fear your country wherever you live, will have similar constructions.

Banks are responsible for fraud, instead of the police.
Tax services are responsible for giving allowances instead of social services.
You have to go through an impenetrable system to make an appointment with “a” medical provider (not knowing with whom because no one is responsible).
And no one is responsible for waiting lists to public services.

During the Covid pandemic, in the Netherlands, the government piggy backed the majority of their measures onto existing small business, bigger corporations and independents.
Turning them into henchmen.

If you wanted to have a business or ran a public building or service, where you saw people in real life; In 2020-2021?
You became an enforcer of the law.

Meaning that if anything went wrong you were in a confrontation with the client, student, employee, visitor or customer, and the government did not have to police 99% of civilians.

The people who had made the laws, had given the execution to others who were already in the system (entrepreneurs and public service workers).

But it’s not just the government throwing their responsibility over the fence of course.
Every time you lose an account from Facebook, Instagram and no one is there to help you, you encounter a situation where no one is responsible because no one is there and like David to Goliath you are fighting “the system”.
Which doesn’t give you anything to hold on to.
In 2024, Goliath is a ghost.

And then you have other citizens weaponizing those government organizations or impersonal big tech companies.

Blaming a malfunction in their phone for not contacting you.
The bank for not paying you.
Postal services for not delivering the letter.

And so on.

Real evil only has one form:
It is where no one is responsible.

Either because there is no awareness, or because responsibility has symbolically, sloppily and usually very much without any consent, been transferred onto someone else.

Anyone or anything, any situation, system or any organization in your life not taking full responsibility, or not crystal fucking clear of how they are responsible and whose job it is to help you fix things when something has gone wrong;

That, is where evil lies.

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~Suzanne
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