Overcoming evil, Part 10: Overcoming it

This is the last part (10) of a series of blog posts. Please start with part 1 first. The title of this post is admittedly a bit clickbaity. To overcome evil is a task which will need the collective efforts of whole humankind. Therefore I will not be able to provide a complete bunch of instructions about what needs to be done. But I can’t resist to discuss a few aspects which I think might be relevant for success. As we have seen in part 7 it’s fundamentally impossible to contain evil by establishing stricter moral standards and creating and enforcing new laws. Such activities make things only worse. But currently this is exactly what we are trying to do and consequently the current trajectory of humankind seems to be headed towards self destruction. Our only chance lies in changing the environment we humans live in. In changing our society and our economic system. We must create a society where humans are living in an environment which accounts for our minds structured by millions of…