[Episode 136] DEPROGRAMMED: When are People Evil?

Carter and Keri discuss their longstanding agreement about when it is acceptable (or not) to label someone as "evil."

Some of the quotes Keri read while waiting for Carter to sort-out his technical problems:

"Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!"
- Carl Jung

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good...Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions...

Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes.... That was how the agents of the Inquisition fortified their wills: by invoking Christianity; the conquerors of foreign lands, by extolling the grandeur of their Motherland; the colonizers, by civilization; the Nazis, by race; and the Jacobins (early and late), by equality, brotherhood, and the happiness of future generations. Thanks to ideology the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions....

Without evildoers there would have been no Archipelago."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
- C.S. Lewis

" A single person who stops lying can bring down a tyranny."
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."
-- George Orwell

“Beware any person or group that redefines words so that they no longer align with facts, common sense, and common usage."
- David Miller Haskell

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing."

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

About Deprogrammed
Every Thursday at 11:00 Pacific, former SJW Keri Smith joins Unsafe Space to co-host "Deprogrammed."

We'll explore the philosophy, strategy, and tactics that Marxist and postmodern nihilists use to program "Social Justice Warriors," turning otherwise thoughtful, critically-minded individuals into armies of extreme leftist NPCs. Each week, we'll talk about a different aspect of "social justice" culture, drawing both from Keri's personal experience as well as current events.

YouTube link to video version of this episode:
https://youtu.be/UFcnfufVZ1E