Addicted to Evil
The tragic collapse of the American Empire
Addiction cannot be helped until it is admitted. The American Empire and our Modern World are addicted to evil. Denying such addiction would be admitting it, and that cannot be done or even suggested.
The example of JD Vance, Trump’s disastrous vice-president pick, quickly illustrates this. His people denied him having sex with a couch, thus permanently engraving the image of Vance humping a sofa in everyone’s mind.
The humor here is ironic. Vance has accepted evil as a route to power and has been quickly hoisted on his words and actions, revealing the lies that define his greed. He will take any evil for his advancement while denying his own history.
We need to become much more sophisticated at defining evil as an addictive drug, as it is consuming and destroying us. The new destructiveness of evil is finally being recognized with the growing presence of the word ‘evil’ in articles both on Trump and authoritarians in general and in projections from the evil ones themselves.
The latter is so common, particularly with pathological narcissists such as Trump, that they foreshadow their darkest machinations by accusing everyone else of what they are doing. Their cult followers accept whatever they say unquestioningly. Sadly, everyone else becomes…
