Forces of good and evil?

Over the fence there, The Outpost has sometimes been concerned with describing a level of manipulation of reality, and in some cases of outright lying, of censorship, of subtle and less subtle power dynamics and sleight of hand as witnessed within a particular small world.  Also of essentially the gullibility of people, the willingness of people to believe simply what they are fed and the why behind all of that. These are the small-scale actions of a cross section of types that peddle a particular narrative within a small world and I object to narrative control, particularly for personal gain which is why I have written as I have.  Health and freedom of thought with, ideally, freedom of expression, though increasingly cracked down on in the UK, are the two essentials.

In the recent previous posts here I was not saying that the things I have observed and written about over the years on The Outpost are like Trump on a small scale. My point in The Outpost has often been that there are things that motivate some people that cause them to persuade those that  a detached observer might see as effectively, prey, or a cash cow, in other terms, that whatever is in the interests of the “leader” is actually in their interests too. It’s not even framed that way, something is offered as a service. The idea is to get the target to feel they are lucky to have the leader-framed-as-helper and that actually they are all just one big family. It’s a common sleight of hand and much of capitalism runs on exactly this basis: create a need / desire, offer to fulfil it, the person believes they are happier when in fact there has been a very successful sleight of hand especially when no-one is any the wiser. Product X has not in any meaningful way enhanced the person's life.  It's probably made them sicker or more dependent or less satisfied, but that's not what they think.  So they go back for more.  Masterful! And if you can tie in people's self image, their sense of self worth, their ego, their pride, their sense of accomplishment into all that, does capitalism get any more successful?   

But since this era that I think of as the Pigface diaries, since the Pigface attacks, there was a big jump.  Since I've started to what I hope is recover  - but with the decline in my physical health I do wonder - I started to see the world in starker terms of good and evil.  I sat with that for a few months. Then I started to think it was too simplistic, and also problematic. If you start to think in metaphysical terms of the universe governed by baked-in forces of good or evil, you really need an explanation for that. And if you were to turn it into a God and the Devil you’ve got more or less the same problem, just in ontological terms. I wasn’t happy with either of those because they both require a difficult why or how to be answered and I think there are more interesting questions.

So I started to think, well, how do you explain the way some people will cause harm as part of their means to an end, and either deny reality, deny the harm, or just say, well, that's how it is, rule of the strong, with no regret or compassion or emotions that commonly go alongside human morality?