Evil is a privation of good, meaning lack of Good. Evil is not a thing per se, but a lack of said thing (good)-- in whatever capacity or quantity.
"That which constitutes the essence of every society, or that which unites the members in tending towards the end, is its form."- St. Maximilian Kolbe
If, then, we understand that the form is suffering from lack of good in society, we can thereby deduce that the essence of society is suffering from lack of good, or, evil.
In other words, society has devolved or decayed and it is missing something Good in its members or at least in that which unites its members to a level which can overcome that which it is thereby lacking.
This is truly no surprise, and we can see where the problem of mental health and the capitalization of evil (being a negative entity) on the weaknesses we see more prevalently comes into play.
If we were to look at society as a brain, and the members as brain cells, we could understand that lack of oxygen--being the good--would have an adverse effect in increasing quantities of that negative possession. Or to put it another way, the oxygen (good) which remains is increasingly unable to overcome the consequential effects of deprivation of itself. At first society seems a little dizzy, then it gets a little weird, then it suffers irreparable damage and gets stupid, eventually leading to societal death.
Individual cells might indeed die off randomly or atrophy or otherwise no longer contribute to the end as a whole. This is natural, in a sense, in the context of a fallen world.
The evil which we see, as concerns mental health, is more like cancer though. It is taking a thing which otherwise might in and of itself be fine (the cellular person, if you will), and metastasizing it in a way that it simply must be excised, irradiated, or otherwise dealt with before it can kill the whole organism.
What we prognosticate, based on historical trends re-presenting themselves in concept, which we will increasingly see in the coming months and years having already seen it, is certain: oligarchical cells will call everything cancer, while refusing to acknowledge the lack of oxygen. Those unthinking, oxygen-deprived brain cells will simply go along because they're no longer in possession of full good and cannot think properly.
A cold? Cancer. Allergies? Cancer. Broken arm? Cancer. Broken heart? Cancer. Cancer? Well that will just get lost in the shuffle of calling everything cancer. And what if the oligarchical cells themselves metastasize into cancer, as the MRI of sound philosophy, right moral thinking, logic, reasoning, and truth indicates is already happening? Well, we get a tumor of oppressive statism that disarms the body of its natural immune fighting abilities (firearms) and kills us all.
We must get oxygen (good) back into society STAT, and deal with individuals as individuals. Calling everything cancer and letting the lemming cells drive us all off the cliff into the fiery pit of modern-day Stalinism, with its oppressive statist philosophy tactic based on collective relativism working towards its false-objectivity of declaring lie as truth, and denial of truth as objective, is societal suicide. Induced or encouraged chaos throughout the spheres of subsidiarity, to become the only one with the claim of producing answers and enforcing a version of order, is satanic. This is what the modern State does.
This modality of "everyone has a truth and can disagree" can only lead to people seeking a defined thing as truth-- for they are rife with pain from the many arrows of lies flying off-course everywhere, and never, well, true. Human beings naturally move toward truth, or what they believe to be truth if in possession of any good or rational ability to process thought. This truth-giving becomes the job of the State per the wishes of the people (or at least the appearance as such per agitators and propaganda, combined in agitprop) as it will be the only entity with the power to do so in any enforceable context and any demonstrable authority to enforce its claims of power in reducing the chaos it actually started. This so-called truth, which is defined by the State, is not really truth but a lie. The real Truth is that there is only one objective, definable, knowable Truth. In the context of gun ownership and self-defense: it must be at the individual level first and foremost. Anything outside of that becomes not only increasingly tyrannical, but increasingly ineffective per the original claim of providing safety.
More so, due to the reality of the truth of oligarchical cells being thematic throughout history, and the only thing which can overcome something evil is its unequal opponent in greater quantity (good) to match that which the offending opponent lacks (negative possession, meaning evil), we cannot conceivably let ourselves or society be duped into thinking we, who have a right to self-defense and defense of others, including society at large, can be reduced to lacking the fully capable immune system of individual armories or otherwise the tools of immunity to evil in essence and cancer in practice. In other words, New York's new 7-round magazine limit is like telling a cancer victim, "here's your cast, and see the nurse for your 8 ounces of water."
Anything which doesn't meet the actual need versus the ability is absurd. Ultimately a lie told as truth for greater power of the State and the reduction of the individual, for a complete reversal of the proper distribution of the power for subsidiarity (meaning the ability of a societal sphere to actuate its own solutions to problems endemic to its level) to actually work, results in a top-heavy power structure in increasingly smaller matters previously reserved to the individual. In short, ineffectiveness results; individuals can no longer operate within their previous abilities, and society itself becomes inoperable in its mechanics.
This leads to decreased respect of the individual, leading to a privation of the common good through the micro/macro relationship of the individual and society, and through the natural inclination to subisidiarity leads to asking the State to fix the issues. This is the great lie of the Marxist claim, and reveals its diabolical nature. For once man counts solely on the State, and no longer sees himself as an individual of any capability who gets said capability from God, he no longer counts on God or himself; or, otherwise sees God as more ineffective than the State for which God was replaced. By historical example, the State becomes less effective and more tyrannical with increased power over the individual. This does not serve the common good or human dignity. It is institutionally evil, and is (negatively) sustained through persons of increased privation of good (evil). A reduction of God is a reduction of the source of all Good. Ergo, we have the root of the issue in society's negative possession, or, evil. The Statism we are seeing emerging in America is a result of individual and social rejection of God, and thus good. The closer we tend towards this evil, the ultimate end for such a society, the more our form resembles the end and we, as a society at least, become essentially evil. Thus, we lack a true society and in ourselves see an analogue of that which will eventually torment us in the State. At this juncture, I cannot see anything but the experience of this process pulling men of good will back towards the Good and through the evil which they 1) allowed 2) caused or 3) both. The achievement of health, socially and individually, is more painful the sicker one is when they start on the road to recovery. This present society must die. It is corporately cancerous. Whether or not a new, good society rises from it is ultimately up to God and man.
Instead of giving inadequate treatment to symptoms or completely inapplicable treatment to societal ills, as a thinking society, we should be telling the allergy sufferers, "here's your antihistamine, and if you ever have cancer you have access to the radiation therapy should you be able to afford it." In this sense, the standing military and police forces are nothing more than a health insurance plan to help out. Healthy living and a good immune system should negate the potential need for that as much. Though, realistically, illness happens and help can be needed. But the idea of living like an unhealthy ward-of-the-State moron for the sake of having a fail-safe all encompassing, individual harming, abortive/contraceptive, indeed, evil health insurance plan which can (and will) turn on you in your moment of need is, again, societal suicide... or at least cause for a running in the Darwin Award finals.
Calling a broken arm or heart, a cold, allergies, or anything other-than-cancer cancer, is the result of lack of oxygen. It is sheer evil. It is not true. It is lacking truth, which is good, and therefore evil.
And this is what society suffers from increasingly: evil.
So get some good and keep your guns. The cancer is coming.
