Of course!
There’s a difference between being evil and having a genius for evil. Example. Serial killer = evil. FBI profiler who helps catch that serial killer = genius for evil. Make sense now?
Alright, I’ll simplify it for you. One of the wisest things ever said of man in philosophy or religion is that we all carry within us the seed of evil. The Original Sin myth is a symbolic representation of this potential for wickedness. Evil, in all its subjective incarnations, is an inert force in our souls, dormant until we chose to release it of our own free will. Forget all about the theological aspects for now, just focus on that choice. Can you see how someone with a genius for evil can choose not to be evil now?
I’m not fucking evil!!! That clear enough for you?
Don’t get me started. I’ll start to sound evil
For art. Art is truly the only safe place for evil to go after it’s been released from the human soul. Better for it to flow into art than into the world. That, of course, is just my preference. The FBI uses their genius for evil to combat terrorism and infiltrate crime rings, among other things. Other people use it for other purposes, but only evil people use it for evil.
Because evil is one of the essential components of the human existence, and that is the milieu in which I work. Plus it’s really fun.
In the context I’m talking about, Aristotle called it catharsis. Have you ever watched a horror movie where a guy gets his head chopped off and thought “Man, it would really suck to get your head chopped off,” but at the end of the movie you felt a little bit better because your head was still on your shoulders? That’s catharsis.
Murder, suicide, infidelity, greed. It’s hard to pick. But if I had to nail it down to just one, I’d have to say Evil Knievel.
