It IS really that simple, and that's also the method you use to separate the good from the evil. Only the evil deals in absolutes.
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World oscillates, just like everything else.
No. While there are many opinions by no means are all really intellegent once binary. See Hanna Arendt "The banality of evil" or Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond good and evil" (result is debatable but smart mad)
There are almost no people who see themselves as evil (except some really fucked up lunatics like serial killers). Everyone normally wants to be and do good. Where does all the evil then come from?
Sometimes people do evil things because of ignorance. They just didn't know/ thought of the consequences of their actions.
Often people do evil things for their own or their close one's advantage like corruption.
But most of the time people do really evil things because of projection. The pressure from "outside" (mainly during childhood development) to be good can be so forcefully and rigorously that people can't accept parts of their own self which they then project onto others. Thus invoking evil actions against these others to protect themselves from them, in extreme cases this can go until dehumanising others "allowing" all the great atrocities we know from human history.
No. Life is not a Marvel movie. Instead, the world is driven by material conditions, and the continuous effect these conditions have in guiding future conditions. The capitalists overtook the fuedal lords not because they were more moral, but because of the steam engine and the expansion in industrial production. The Statesian north didn't free the slaves of the south out of any moral reason, but to gain access to more wage laborers better fit for industrial production. Socialism is overtaking capitalism because imperialism is dying, and rates of profit are falling.
There's no idealist "good vs evil." If you'd like, I wrote an intro Marxist-Leninist reading guide that might help!
'There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.’
‘It’s a lot more complicated than that—’
‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.'
—Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
I'm a tool.
the world is rich versus poor, has been and always will be.
change my mind.
We outnumber the rich millions to one, and when we finally all realize that the rich are going have a really bad day.
The Haves and the Have Nots have always been at war. Occasionally there are agreements struck, but the Haves always come back for more.
The more I learn, the more I realize that a lot of political leaders who do horrible do what they do for a reason, with some exceptions. This isn't an endorsement of their actions or their reasons, but Putin, Netanyahu, and (kinda) Biden/Obama/Bush all have reasons for what they do. The rare exceptions are the super corrupt ones. Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Orban, Trump, the office of US president generally, Scott Morrison, etc.
In other words it's not so much good vs. evil as corruption vs integrity.
I wouldn't put Netanyahu in the former camp.
Netanyahu is super corrupt, but in his position as leader of Israel he does things for a reason. The Israeli people have a persecution complex due to ... history, and so many want an ethnostate. On top of that Israel like America has made a lot of enemies, through their various war crimes, so the threats to Israel's national security are real.
None of this is an endorsement of Israel's past, present, or future. There are better ways to survive and they seem be going out of their way to cross lines that I wouldn't even if it'd kill me. There seems to be some "religious zionism" mixed in with their efforts to build an ethnostate that makes sure they needlessly commit every war crime in the book. Furthermore Israel's reckless actions and it's impunity have been fomenting antisemitism around the world (from the right, this isn't meant to equivocate pro-Palestine activistism with antisemitism).
What do you even mean? Good and evil are moral terms, and the world doesn't even have objective morality, let alone 'is' it. Making a meme where your position is in the 'right', doesn't make it true or even sensical.