Yes, Margaret, There is a Devil： An Explanation of Extant Evil
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Summary
There is an explanation of evil, and it's not what you think it is! - Margaret Atwood, author of The Devil Next Door: An Explanation of Fathomless Evil, discusses evil, narcissism, and the narcissist culture.
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Now, this is a question I get a lot, although it takes different forms.
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Sometimes people ask me, are you just dehumanizing people by calling them leftists?
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Your explanation of what happened doesn't make any sense.
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I can't believe that that's what actually happened.
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Each time I get this question, it's because I'm talking about evil.
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And that's what I'm going to try and explain to you folks in this video.
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Greed is, I'm going to rob a bank because I want a bunch of money.
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But we're not talking about competition over scarce resources.
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You know, if there's scarce resources, then people are going to fight over them.
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You know, it's like I'm furious with this person, so I'm going to...
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They're working on a remake with an actual English translation.
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Evidence of the supernatural appears far more often than reasonable men would like.
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You know, I really think that good Christians and good Jews...
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You need to make the decision to have faith in God.
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Because you're not going to find God anywhere out there.
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The last psychiatrist writes brilliantly about this.
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About how narcissistic and ego-driven our culture is.
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It's so hard to actually get out of this conversation.
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You know, like I'm sure we've all noticed a lot of newspeak.
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Because the words don't mean what they used to mean anymore.
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You know, I wish we had a ministry of truth disseminating all of this.
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And I really recommend you listen to some of this.
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So that he looks like he's really strong on these moral standards.
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Moral standards themselves are just outfits that we put on to impress other people.
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Whether it's an SJW promoting equality or a conservative opposing gay marriage.
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Whenever Oprah is talking to parents about child rearing.
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At the core, the underlying subtext of the conversation is that the way your children turn out is a reflection upon you.
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And ultimately, we've got the whole subculture thing.
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A solid core of iron that is unchanging about them.
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People dress to pretend that they have an inner core.
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To act like there is some substance to the person.
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But it's just the outfit that you buy at Hot Topic.
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That's a term that's becoming quite popular nowadays in the alternative.
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It's ironic in the era of 24-7 news coverage when we have no mythos.
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Like the mythos, the absolute, the higher truth.
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We just have the surface, the veneer, the sheen.
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And then that's what the last psychiatrist writes about.
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He writes about a narcissistic behaving person.
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But some of them, some of them become full-blown narcissists.
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And the full-blown narcissist, well, what is it?
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Like the psychology can, you know, ding, ding, ding.
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They can write all the bullet points for it, but it's not going to tell you what it is.
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What a narcissist is, it's a somebody who at their core is nothing but rage, hatred, and shame.
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They need to create this shell around themselves.
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They need to constantly redefine it, and they constantly need to be affirmed in that definition.
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They, a man that lives his life for value, with integrity, a man that knows who he is.
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It doesn't matter what the slings and arrows of the world say.
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And so nobody likes being thought poorly of, but it's not going to destroy him.
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There's a, there is an honest to God, you can't answer this question.
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But when you have a true narcissist, is there a soul in there?
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You, we can never know, because that shell personality is all you will ever see.
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You rip off one layer, another one snaps into place immediately.
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The closest you will ever come to knowing a narcissist is if they try and murder you.
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The, the blind hatred, or if they commit suicide to hurt you.
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That's, that's all that's going on inside the narcissist.
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And so let's, let's think of some examples of this.
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You know, in bachelorette economics, one of the, the first things that Aaron writes about,
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or not bachelorette economics, the black man's guide out part.
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One of the first things he writes about is the fact that if, if you're a, you're a young black man in the ghetto,
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They will do everything in their power to drag you back down.
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I mean, realistically speaking, wouldn't you, if you were a poor ghetto black, wouldn't you love to have a rich friend?
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I mean, they certainly take advantage of the, the sports playing friends.
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And again, becoming a rich basketball player, that's allowed in the ghetto culture.
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But anybody that tries to study hard, that tries to improve themselves,
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that doesn't mean you'll get involved in crime,
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that means it's my own fault for being a failure.
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There, there's a few good, there's a few feminists that, like, I will argue with them.
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I disagree with them a lot, on a lot of things.
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They, they think that with more women should have interesting jobs,
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We tend to say it's, it's hatred of masculinity.