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Eutopia, Part 3: What Is Evil?

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Twin Towers on September 11, 2001; Photo: VOA News

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

“Eutopia” means a happy place. Philip Allott’s book, Eutopia, is about making life better. Surely the attempt to make life better today must include getting past some of the apparent evil that is standing in our way. So it is well worth our inquiring into the nature of evil, if such there be.

It will not be helpful to consult a dictionary. That will only tell us that the word evil is used to refer to wickedness or excessive badness, but not how that stuff comes to exist.

Nor will etymology (which is often fruitful) do us much good. According to etymonline.com (!), the modern English word evil comes to us “from the Old English yfel (Kentish evel) ‘bad, vicious, ill, wicked,’ from Proto-Germanic ubilaz (source also of Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch evel, … ”

And as I take the Garden of Eden scene to be metaphorical, I won’t be using the biblical idea of evil as instructive. I don’t think there is a “force” of evil out there. I also don’t subscribe to the idea of a little man dressed in red with horns, though it’s possible that satanism is a sort of ideology that may account for some people’s wicked practices as it justifies them.

Allott’s Historical and Philosophical Perspective

This series is about the book Eutopia, in which Philip Allott of Cambridge University tries to play the traditional philosopher, asking what’s wrong and what might be possible as a better life. Allott is hugely sophisticated. First, I’ll paraphrase his thesis about evil and then let him break it down into particulars.

Thesis: A couple of centuries ago we figured out how to conquer Nature, and we forged ahead with the changes that the conquest made possible. We did it without thinking. We soon found ourselves enslaved by our own triumphalism.  And we have not had the standard philosophical work to go with this event.  (We do now, though!)

The division of labor in the new economic system (think Dickens, think Walmart’s) made us sort of outsiders to our real human self.  We gazed at the big existing systems and assumed we must carry out our particular role rather than question whether these systems should perhaps not be enjoying autonomy.

A clever political system (which is part of what Allott calls “the public power”) had to be devised to protect the great wealth-accumulation involved in the new system.  It includes the fact that they had to make law that can control law. (Basically that is what I’m yipping about all the time.) Allott makes it all sound so plain and so subjectable to human correction!

A Word from Lionel Tiger

Now I interrupt the discussion of Eutopia to mention an anthropologist who, 35 years ago, performed some of the aforementioned philosophical task.  Lionel Tiger of Rutgers University wrote the very important monograph, Men in Groups. Tiger became well known in academic circles in the 1970s for his joint work with Robin Fox entitled The Imperial Animal. Yet his brilliant book, The Manufacture of Evil (1987), has been largely ignored.

Look at how Tiger portrays (on pages 177-184) the way in which the use of writing changed us. It cuts down on direct communication, and almost eliminates our normal animal-like communication. I recall a New Yorker cartoon of two men living alone on a small island. One says to the other “Did you get my memo on conches?”

Tiger shows how literacy became important in the international no-man’s-land of science. But he goes back earlier to the new crowding up of societies after the agricultural revolution. There was then a sudden rise of the big religions. People’s ethical relations had to be articulated.  Priests were the only people who could read and write. In the case of the Bible and the Koran, Tiger notes: “Written words supposed to specify reality became the carriers of magic.”

When the colonial world was breaking up, he says, the introduction of general literacy broke down the tribal orality. Paraphrasing Walter Ong SJ’s 1982 book, Orality and Literacy, Tiger says “The traditional structure had no clear place for the private ratiocination of the individual operating according to his own lights.” By the way, Tiger thinks the typical family’s use of 7 hours per day of television is a regression to our illiterate normalcy.

Allott on Evil

All of the above shall prepare us for the fact that Philip Allott does not see evil emanating from evil individuals.  He sees it resulting from the gap between the human being and the autonomous systems we have created and which have their own necessities — that we too easily grant. I shall now quote, using Allott’s paragraph numbers (which are very handy, by the way — I think they should be used by scholars in many fields). All bolding is mine.

2.54: In the natural realm of the human condition, the situation is bad and getting worse. We have assumed a ruthless hegemony over everything on Earth…. 2.55: We have created the means of destroying all life. We have allowed the dehumanized power of science and engineering to determine our present and future…rather than the highest human values [in] the common interest.  2.56: The is a chronic sickness, which may be terminal, in the relationship between the human species and the Earth.

2.59 The division of labor is now a total integration of labor from which there is no escape. To survive is to serve the economy successfully.

3.77  The volume of human evil… has led some people to think of evil itself as a natural and ineradicable feature and this is used to explain and justify actual choices of evil over good.

4.71: War is mass murder and the indiscriminate destruction of property in the public interest…. Private life is haunted by the risk of extreme public violence….The apologists of war say that this [is due to] human nature…  4.72:  The hundreds of millions killed in war… may suggest another view….

4.72 War-making is an expression of the evil that can tempt any human being into crime… [This is] magnified to an extreme commensurate with the power of holders of extreme public power including their power of cynical manipulation of the public mind of whole societies and the private minds of individual human beings.

7.30: Contamination. … the association of science with industry and commerce with government. There can now be little disinterested scientific inquiry, unaffected by non-scientific forces…. 731: [and] the uses to which scientific products can be put are unlimited. 741: Engineering gives rise to its own version of the great problem of moral and social accountability.

8.38 There is reason to believe that the increasing social indifference of the many in the contemporary world is combining with the growing autonomy of social systems…and the rise of machine-minds … and the ever-increasing of the few who control the machinery….

11.49: Rescuing democracy-capitalism from itself is a major challenge of the 21st century….

11.64: The new social order had created a new human order which is dehumanizing. The human condition was being refashioned and, with it, our consciousness of what it means to be human.

11.74 In Aristotle’s analysis, democracy is crucially vulnerable to demagoguery….Holders of exceptional power, and not only tyrants, may claim to be holders of the will of the people. By fraudulent elections, …by stage managed demonstrations, they may claim to hear and speak the voice of the people. Vox populi, vox dei — the voice of the people, the voice of God.

11.90 A collective melancholy has taken possession of the human mind. The human world is becoming too much for us to bear. With the crazy superfluity of information about everything happening everywhere, a pathological incoherence of value is taking hold. We know that what is happening is wrong and yet we must treat it as if it were natural and necessary.  … Incoherence and anxiety are disabling states of mind. We are a species that cannot love itself.

A Note (Not from Allott) on the Evil of Pedophilia

I said in an article in my Eusociality series, that I haven’t been able to get my head around the issue of pedophilia.  Not that I am ignorant of it.  My book Deliverance (about MK-Ultra) and my book Reunion: Judging the Family Court (about Child Protective Service in Australia) have made me very aware of the practice. The 2017 Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse proved the prevalence of it, as thousands of now-adult children came forward.

Even using Philip Allott’s tremendously helpful explication of evil, I do not see how such cruelty is proceeding, and may be increasing. One arm of the Eutopia argument seems apposite: the wealthy or powerful needed a way to control law to ensure it wouldn’t be used against them. Yes, that happened: it’s definitely true that the main child traffickers are utterly protected.

Another arm is that the citizenry now takes as a sort of given that the powerful will do wicked things. (In the context of Covid, see the behavior and boastings by Gates, Fauci, and Schwab, and the lack of corresponding anger by folks.) Yes, we are mesmerized or we love kowtowing, or whatever.

But I still don’t see where the pedophilia drive comes from. Sex with children is not driven by reproductive needs or by a desire for prestige; the abusers deny that they are abusing. I guess it may be that there is a drive to abuse. What we did at Abu Ghraib attests to that, and it is still happening in Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo). As an American I take personal responsibility for it.

 

 

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  4. “Why should we believe in God? We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one’s neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hindrance to the revolution. Down with love of one’s neighbor; what we want is hatred. We must know how to hate, for only at this price can we conquer the universe…The fight should also be developed in the Moslem and Catholic countries, with the same ends in view and by the same means.” (Lunatcharski, The Jewish Assault on Christianity, Gerald B. Winrod, page 44)
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    Jewish Prime Minister of England, Benjamin Disraeli said – “the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” ……. “You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews;” …… (pp. 249-252)
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    In his novel Coningsby (London, 1844), Disraeli drew in a picture form the life of the Jews ruling the world from behind the thrones as graphic as anything in the Protocols of Nilus.

    • I got the the idea that the Jews wrote the bible and carried it around for millennia because they had some idea they wanted to account for themselves in the afterlife. You can see a similar thing with the mormons who keep all the birth and death records of anyone they can get their hands on, this is supposedly for the rapture or similar. The Jews seem to be very good at record keeping unlike everyone else in those pre-Christian times. With all the flak that comes their way, and with their studious nature, this outcome is not really surprising. How do Jews put up with all the scapegoating that is thrown at them throughout history ? It seems to make them more resilient. They stay focussed on whatever they are pursuing and just ignore the detractors, who seem to waste vast amounts of energy on their obsession.

      • “Detractors” are those who were/are cognizant of the danger pose by jewish supremacists to mankind. It is not “scapegoating” if they are expelled hundreds of times for criminality from countries in just the last few thousands of years.

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        Search for The Jew World Order and the Decline of Humanity video at bitchute. There is an automatic censorship when I try to put this link.

        • HH88, all of bitchute is censored somehow from being posted to these bloggs.
          The danger of jew supremacists seems to pale in comparison to the Swiss crowd of old Euro Royals, combined with US figures such as Rockerfellas, with their proteges Gate, Bush &c. There are a few Zionists in the mix and some seem to be the crypto-jews from Hungary and beyond. It almost seems as if Gaza is being used as an experiment by Globalists, through Zionists, to see how much a small state can endure. The Globalist pet state Monaco is not far away and stands in contrast. Are the old royals of Europe all jews ? Is everyone in Switzerland a jew ? How did this come about, would you say ?

          • Globalists seem to be mostly Germanics but on the whole a multi-racial effort. Communo-fascism is just the updated version of feudalism. Top down control. As these discussions go on my respect for the Jewish race only increases. Of course I have no special feelings for Larry Fink et al and Richard (Rachel) Levine clearly has mental health issues.
            Lowy, Soros etc, are they not crypto-jews ? They wanted to get in on banking as the Vatican gave banking to jews 900 years ago, to take the heat off their own more ancient connections.
            In old times you could just turn up somewhere, if the economy was booming you could get a job, they ask your name, you say anything, they write it down according to their own spelling which is usually wrong, and you say whatever religion you are, whatever suits.

  5. Evil is the ugly subversion of Übermensch divine power.

    “The Übermensch shall be the meaning of the earth!” — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

  6. Hey, is anybody following what Philip Allott is doing, per this series? I don’t think there has ever been anything like it. I also think when he says “Get busy” [not his words] he knows what he’s talking about.

    The Canadian police may attack the truckers. Remember the Bonus Army’s fate? Several men were shot and two died. The Army against veterans. Dirt-poor veterans. The song of the day was “The Yanks are starving! The Yanks are starving.”

    Perhaps I’ll move the Get Busy part of my expostulation (is that a word? hope it’s not dirty) to Part 4. Just now I’ve got an email that Gofundme is withholding the truckers’ $10 million gifts received from the public. Bet Gofundme is a CIA propritery.

    “Those who can, do.”

  7. “Tall!” Shlomo cried to a tall blond man. “Lie down right here! Tall!” to another tall man. “Lie down beside him! Tall!” to another one. “Lie beside him!” As soon as the three were lined up, Shlomo cried, “You! Lie on top of them, crosswise! No!” he said, clubbing the man. “I said crosswise! You!” he continued, and he kept piling up [prisoners], three this way, three that, till he had a human cube as high as a hand could reach.

    “All right!” Shlomo said, and his guests started swinging the clubs, whacking away at the cube as if they were hunters and it were a pod of Canadian seals. The air was thick with the grunts of the guests and the thud! of the wood upon bones. In the high tiers the [prisoners] cried, “Bitte! Please!” the [prisoners] in the center tiers moaned, but the [prisoners] in the low tiers were mute, for the weight of the two dozen people on top had pushed their viscera out and the [prisoners] were dying. “Pigs!” cried the party guests, pounding away, but Shlomo just leaned on a bed, watching, laughing like a meshugganer—a nut, his code name in the partisans.”

    This might sound like a scene from Abu Ghraib but in fact it is depicted [slightly redacted] from John Sack’s “An Eye For an Eye”.

    … John Sack continues …

    The dead bodies went to the morgue every morning. The broken stools went to the carpenter, a man who sat melting the glue-bars, muttering, -Mary and Joseph! More stools!” and the dead people’s names went to Shlomo. He tallied them up—he had twenty, sometimes, from the brown barracks, twenty from the other barracks—and he then mailed a notice to all the dead people’s wives,

    NOTICE. On July————-, ——-, the Prisoner ———— died of a heart attack.

    The [prisoners] were innocent Germans

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