GonorrhoeaGobbler
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The Architecture of the Broken: A Speech on the Invention of Evil
We often look at the world and try to categorize things as natural or unnatural, but we get stuck when we talk about violence. We see a predator and we call it cruel, but a wolf isn’t evil. It’s just hungry. It kills for a feast and it kills to survive. But how about this: what do we call the person who doesn’t kill for the feast, but instead pours salt into the water or blocks the sun?Well, you may ask: "Is that just another form of survival?" No. That is where we find the birth of True Evil.
I’ll give you an example. When I first read about Patrick Bateman, I thought he was just a man who had gone postal. I saw him as someone trapped in the unnatural misery of a materialistic, plastic world. I saw a man trying to lash out and break his chains so he could finally re-enter nature. I thought he was doing the most natural thing a hunter could do by using violence to feel alive again.
But how about the reality? As you go deeper, you realize Bateman isn't a hunter. He is a broken sadist. A hunter kills to eat or to protect, but Bateman kills hookers just to leave their heads on a table like macabre trophies. He isn’t spreading his genes or securing territory. He is a genetic dead end. He is destroying the very eggs of the future for a thrill that yields zero biological gain.
You see, in a world with no inherent rules or mid-century morality, we assume everything is permitted. But I would argue that a person who salts the earth, who destroys for a thrill with no natural advantage, isn't a strong predator. He isn’t evil because he’s a monster. He isn’t evil, he is just broken. But here is the catch: I guess him being broken is exactly what allows for the creation of evil in a world that otherwise has no inherent morality.
Well, you may ask: "If there are no rules, why does being broken matter?"
It matters because morality is man-made. And I don’t just mean that humans sat down and invented religious beliefs to keep people in line. It goes deeper. Morality is a biological and social technology. It is a high-level achievement of the advanced mind. Only a person who is mentally advanced can become broken in a way that creates evil.
A shark cannot be evil. A virus cannot be evil. They aren't advanced enough to fail. They follow their programming perfectly. But a human? A human has a complex internal compass. And when that compass short-circuits, when the will to power becomes a will to erase, that is when evil is born. It is a sophisticated malfunction.
How about we look at the Hacker or the Vandal? They think they are being Gods because they can break the controller or salt the well. They think they’ve bypassed the rules. But they’ve actually just lost the ability to function. They’ve traded the Hunter’s Feast, the real, tangible rewards of life, for a hollow, digital spike of dopamine that leaves the world sterile.
Patrick Bateman isn't re-entering nature. He is a ghost haunted by the fact that he can't even find the door to nature anymore. He is the Shape of a dying civilization. He is an advanced machine that has broken so fundamentally that it has started to treat the void as its playground.
In the end, morality isn't just a set of "thou shalt nots." It’s the code that keeps the system running. And only a creature smart enough to understand that code is capable of being broken enough to delete it.
