The timeless question of Evil; what is it? Can it be inflexibly identified? Does it shift in meaning? I see Good and Evil demonstrated in the undulatory locomotion of a snake. That serpentine slide, first to one side and then to the other. Certainly, much of what was once considered Evil is now no longer so defined. The same applies to Good. Sometimes it is more a question of Smart and Stupid and it can be said that the reason there seems to be so much Evil in the world is because there is so much Stupid.
Only purity can restore virtue out of vice. Vice is the product of our lower nature in action and Virtue is what is expressed by our higher nature. People tend to opt more for one than the other and it defines them. In times of Material Darkness, the lower nature comes to the fore. Excess is celebrated. Indulgence, like Greed, is considered Good. At least Ayn Rand thought so and that was some time ago. Rand's birth name was, 'Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum'. She died just as The Decade of Unbridled Greed was winding up into the modus operandi for the 'Me Generation'. It was originally said to have been The 70's. It may have started there but it went full bore in the 80's. It hit its zenith when Cocaine went mainstream.
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