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EVIL isn't cool. It's only ignorance all dolled up to look cool. "37k" 640x480 | "53k" 800x600 |
I'll never forget the first time I saw timmy mcveigh on TV. He was coming out of an Oklahoma courthouse wearing an orange prisoner outfit. I had been waiting anxiously to see him. I knew when I saw his face I would get an important insight into evil.
The insight was so powerful it literally knocked me to my knees. I had thought that only happens in books and movies, but apparently not. What I saw was a young man who believed with certainty that he had done what he MUST do for our world. He was so ignorant, he actually believed what he had to do for us was murder 168 innocent American men, women and children on American soil. He actually believed he was qualified to make that kind of decision. What a shock it was to discover his evil was simply overwhelming ignorance.
Don't get me wrong, I know this theory has been bandied about since the time of the greek philosophers. But it was always too general. Specifically, evil thoughts and actions are spawned in the midst of suffering rather than utilizing negative emotions like anger and fear. If we educate ourselves in the beneficial utilization of negative emotions, it won't eliminate murder and suicide, but it will reduce them.
For days after that, every time I watched the news I didn't look for evil.... I looked for ignorance and found it in abundance. The drug dealers, the thieves, the murderers believe they must do these things in order to get happiness or find relief from pain. It always breaks down to ignorance. Most people are smart enough to figure out how to be happy without damaging others.
Evil is glamorized in our culture. It's glamorized in our biggest hit movies, prime time and daytime tv, in some of our biggest hit songs and hottest computer games. They make it look and sound so cool, so stylish.
We have to change that b.s. Evil is not cool. It is only what it's always been - ignorance all dolled up to look cool. Period.
"The mind, once stretched by an empowering idea,
can never fully shrink to its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, paraphrased
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