GENIUS FORUMS

As I define it, goodness is a state of consciousness and self hood that is unconditional, free, whole, innocent and enduring. Where goodness is compromised, goodness is lost.

Goodness is compromised through a lack of whole relation. This lack of whole relation is best exemplified through vicarious living. It is common behaviour in human beings to become very partial to a sensory outcome. A seemingly harmless instance of evil is becoming emotionally invested in your favourite sports team winning. This is in fact quite harmless and forgiveable in most cases, but even in something as silly as sports, we can see the citizens of a nation becoming quite violent and animal when the preference to win is not met: flipping over cars, setting fires and rioting is clearly evil behaviour, insofar as it reduces human activity to immediate, non-abstract concerns, which are illusory. (to be devoted to practical tasks such as fixing damage is to be devoted to an illusion. The "goodness ideal" is to be in a lofty, abstract state of consciousness where the mind can contemplate both the mundane and cosmic, unifying the two).

A much more insidious and everyday co-occurrence of evil is the family unit. I should stress that a relation between a father to his son, a woman to her reproductive partner, or a mother to her son is not inherently evil. The evil lies in the vicarious living. Humans, since we are largely the result of natural selection (our true mother is chaos) are prone to feelings of insufficiency, inadequacy and loneliness. From the sense of inner-emptiness, we start vicariously living through other members in the family. The daughter and son are then manipulated to fulfil the anxiety of the parent. The mother is manipulated by the father, and the father manipulated by the mother. Never has humanity had so much leisure in society, and never has mental illness been such a public problem.

It's my estimation that most depression and anxiety stems from over-manipulation, either from the very root of an individuals existence (the family) or from the profit driven messages of media at large.

Money is clearly an important fuel for Evil. Rather than find an unconditional relation to life (this implies accepting the losses, death and unpredictable events of tomorrow), the human being seeks worldly comfort. Money then becomes very important. Slowly our media has grown into a manipulative monster, where those hungry for the delusion of comfort receive it as they wish, and the new generation of children are shovelled like coal into the furnace of this capitalistic locomotive.

We are not producing innocent, unconditionally free human beings as a quantity that I think is necessary. I myself have struggled to find sanity in my social interactions. Therefore, it will be my work to spread the philosophical and psychological literacy that I see as mostly hidden and ignored in the world today.

Cory Duchesne wrote:A much more insidious and everyday co-occurrence of evil is the family unit. I should stress that a relation between a father to his son, a woman to her reproductive partner, or a mother to her son is not inherently evil. The evil lies in the vicarious living. Humans, since we are largely the result of natural selection (our true mother is chaos) are prone to feelings of insufficiency, inadequacy and loneliness. From the sense of inner-emptiness, we start vicariously living through other members in the family. The daughter and son are then manipulated to fulfil the anxiety of the parent. The mother is manipulated by the father, and the father manipulated by the mother. Never has humanity had so much leisure in society, and never has mental illness been such a public problem.

This could be called the taint of family.

Without the taint, parents act according to accurate assessments of a rug rat's potential, intending life for child and family.

The man called his last children Sir and Miss. It seemed the most natural thing to call them. As adults now, their dignity runs deep.

241: The taint of prayers is non-repetition; the taint of houses, non-repair; the taint of the body is sloth; the taint of a watchman, thoughtlessness.
- Dhammapada