Discussion on Good vs Evil in Literature

If you're evil, you're at least competent.

Um, and if you're evil, you're not bad, and therefore you're act- maybe you're

actually kind of, kind of good because you're at least

getting something done.

In, um, in, in... If you contrast the Faust books of

Marlowe versus Goethe. In Marlowe's Faust, that was the 16th

century Faust story, uh, Faust is a fake

scientist. He's sort of like a magician, you know, sort of, um,

a fake alchemist and, um, it's bad science,

and he goes straight to hell. In Goethe's Faust, yeah,

he has a pact with the

devil, and he sort of gets his knowledge by

morally

dubious means. But it always, it still always,

you know, works out more, more for the best.

And, uh, Goethe's Faust, uh, gets redeemed. And I, I, you know...

So I think it's better to be good than evil. I wanna be very clear.

But, uh, but perhaps, um, but, you know, um, I, I

prefer Goethe's Faust to Marlowe's Faust.

And then the, the moral quest- the moral question in our society

is, um, yeah, we have, we have all these good versus evil

debates,

and we're just... We're full of badness.

It's most of the time those things are not... They're not even evil.

They're not even good. They're just merely bad.

And so if you're in a world where 99% of the businesses, companies,

people, political leaders, business leaders are totally

incompetent