The cancellation of the option to commit ‘evil’ is not the abolition of Free Will. It is the loss of control and manipulation of human societies by the authoritarian system.
Let us attempt to strip away one of the oldest mechanisms of power: the identification of obedience with morality and freedom with guilt. The concept of “Evil” is presented not as a natural reality, but as a tool of control, fear, and social coercion. The big question that arises is whether humanity can one day reach a state of authentic freedom, beyond the predetermined molds of morality and power.
Throughout the centuries and across human communities, priesthoods and systems of power have always played “with forbidden things.” A dirty game. One of their most heinous crimes has been the manipulation and suffocating—almost absolute—control of individuals and the societies they formed. In other words, the violation of humanity’s natural freedom.
The content of this specific sacrilege was the invention of the moral concepts of “Evil” and “Good.” The greatest “coup” committed since the age of human “innocence” and natural morality—as the dowry of an uncorrupted mind—was this: the formulation of rules and behaviors that the individual was obliged to follow so that his life would be compatible with the will of the “lawgiver.”
The ultimate aim of such a literally “satanic-diabolical” design—since Satan and the Devil in all their forms embody “Evil”—was conflict, division, and “repression,” with all the characteristic manifestations of the id. In other words, “divide and rule” within the individual psyche and outwardly within the societies to which individuals belong.
This “Evil,” however, did not possess a vague and inaccessible meaning. It is a figure with an identity that changes through the centuries and takes on different forms whenever necessary. It is Lucifer in the Judeo-Christian religion, Shaytan in Islam, Ahriman in Eastern religions, Mara in Buddhism, Loki among the Scandinavians, Chernobog among the Slavs—to remain only with the most well-known bearers of “Evil,” “Darkness,” and the “Abyss.”
The most powerful instrument—even stronger than weapons or any other form of violence—is the VOLUNTARY submission of the individual to the will of the “god,” who is the enemy of the “devil,” since one represents “Good” and the other “Evil.” And although this obedience to divine commands is nothing more than the result of fear—fear of impending punishment in this life and the next for committing evil and sin—it is nevertheless baptized by the centers of power as a product of free will, as a personal choice and a self-determined path toward “Virtue” or “Vice.”
Entirely… coincidentally, of course, the interests of the authorities and priesthoods (tribe, homeland, property, family, and related institutions) always happened to coincide exactly with what the same “god” considered and demanded as “good.” These interests were represented by those ruling in the name of such a “god,” by rulers and priests—the appointed guardians of the order of “Good.” And naturally, the only thing considered “good” was obedience to the commands of “god” and the laws of the “system.”
Thus morality was shaped through the centuries. And despite the passage of time and the evolution of civilization, the concepts of “Good” and “Evil” survived with their core almost untouched, changing only superficially. THE CENTRAL OBJECTIVE REMAINED: THE SUBMISSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO AN ORDER OF THINGS PREPARED FOR HIM AND WHICH HE IS OBLIGED TO FOLLOW.
Of course, the individual himself never chose this moral “order.” He is persuaded that it is his own decision, the product of his Free Will. In reality, however, all the “suits” forced upon him are pre-tailored to strict and predetermined dimensions. And it makes no difference whether they are too tight or too loose, whether the individual suffocates within them or floats inside them through the centuries, among groups and communities that he also never chooses, but into which he is placed without the consent of his own will to live.