by Stayaway from Bnei Baruch

Created on: May 31, 2009   Last Updated: June 03, 2009

When we think of evil we usually think of some nefarious masked villain who swindles little old ladies and ties virgins to train tracks. But this expression of evil is only the most apparent because we can't see the more insidious evil that exists in all of us. The prime motivation of evil is our inherent egoistic self interest. We live inside of it and perpetrate it every day through all of our dealings with other people.

We aren't really to blame for our own egoistic nature because it is how we are created and the basis of our human existence. The only thing that was evil that was created was a desire for pleasure and fulfillment. That desire is the driving force of all live on Earth and the cause of the expansion of the universe. Creation has evolved into what has become the human ego: the only evil thing in all of Nature.

The ego wants to control and dominate everything and everyone for its own self benefit. We don't like to admit it to ourselves or anyone else, but we would each like to use the entire world to serve our smallest needs and desires. This kind of evil is by far the greatest cause of suffering in the world. We like to blame criminals for the plagues of society when we should really be looking inside our own hearts.

The world has evolved to a point where it can no longer develop through its egoistic nature. We can see we are still part of that one unified creation with every passing year. We are connected by our technologies, by our financial markets, by our trade, and immigration. There is nothing that happens at one side of the world that doesn't have some effect on the other side of the world. At the same time, our egoistic desire to dominate and control has created means of destroying the planet that could wipe out the entirety of the human race in seconds. Our global economy is crashing around us, our ecology is on its last legs, the family system is all but destroyed, and drugs, suicide, and emptiness prevail in the world.

It is obviously time for us to wake up to our own evil and stop pointing the finger and criminals and social degenerates. Every interaction that we have with another person that feeds our self interest is as damaging to the global whole as what criminals are doing. It may seem like a radical stance, but all those small drops of egoism and selfishness add up into the corrupted system of relationships that we see in our world today. Without the support of each of us, the world would not be in its current state.

And with the support of each of us, we can overcome our own egoism and create a world that is truly good. All it takes is waking up to our own inherent evil.

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