Beyond "Beyond Good and Evil"

What are good and evil, and what is the nature of the Beast?

Believe it or not, modern academic philosophers have reached a working consensus on good and evil: “They don’t exist.” As most of them see it, what is good for one group can be bad for others (especially “protected communities”), and insofar as the good-evil distinction seems inconsistent with diversity, equity, and inclusion, good and evil are meaningless. Or rather, they have meaning only in terms of diversity, equity, and inclusion themselves, which together comprise the ultimate good: “social justice” and the dispossession of Western majorities.

It clearly follows that evil is any sort of opposition, either real or imaginary, to these sacred desiderata. As for whether such concepts have consistent definitions of their own … well, that’s beside the point, isn’t it. To reiterate, the point is “social justice”. Keep your eye on the ball: social justice and socialism good, traditional values and private property bad. Let the gods of political correctness be propitiated, and let the sacrificial bonfire be stoked with improperly complexioned useless eaters.

Unfortunately for those who forsake their individuality and bury themselves in debt to please and enrich those who run academic indoctrination mills, this is execrably bad “philosophy”. In many cultures throughout the course of history, sages have been much more successful than modern academic philosophers in defining good and evil. Dharma, the Tao, the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, the Platonic Form of the Good - even if none is perfect, all are better than the prevailing concept of “social justice” and its cultural-Marxist underpinnings.

The good-evil distinction can be an unpleasant subject, but it is one about which we desperately need to talk. We need to talk about what good and evil are and why they happen because wherever we look, good is withering and evil is growing like a cancer, and this seems to be happening with the explicit encouragement of governments, mass media, academia, and even religions. It looks like nothing but corruption all the way down to the bone.