The Reality of Evil
The Reality of Evil
At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice doesn’t pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer. Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action force them to treat one another as instruments or obstacles, as means. The more widespread their mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by uncontrollable forces. Though they are masters of the atomic bomb, yet it is created only to destroy them. Each one has the incomparable taste in his mouth of his own life, and yet each feels himself more insignificant than an insect within the immense collectivity whose limits are one with the earth’s. Perhaps in no other age have they manifested their grandeur more brilliantly, and in no other age has this grandeur been so horribly flouted. In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and my servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men. There was Stalingrad and there was Buchenwald, and neither of the two wipes out the other.
Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look the truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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After getting Bachelors Degrees in Neuroscience and Psychology, Kimberly went on to get a Master's in Social Work. Kimberly's work has won numerous awards and accolades, including publication in a scientific journal as a sole author while in graduate school.
Kimberly's wisdom, insight, and wit have made them a highly sought-after speaker and educator. Their insights have appeared in USA Today, the LA Times, and at the Game Developer's Conference.
Kimberly specializes in complexity. Patients who are medically frail, suicidal, and/or have severe and persistent mental illness can find support at Vered Counseling.
Kimberly also has a decade of experience working with transgender and neurodivergent youth.
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Additionally, all CEUs will include profanity. I follow the George Carlin school of determining what is profane.
(I was trying to think of some folksy euphemism for profanity, but I’ve got nothing. One of my grandmothers regularly left accidental voicemails cursing at technology. My other grandmother didn’t speak English very well, but loved watching The Jerry Springer Show on maximum volume. The heel turn is my birthright; someone pass me a folding chair.)
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