Paul Conti

I mean, how many times do wars that were started for purposes that we would look and say, like, those were evil purposes?

Like, how many times...

There's good of that.

Even if we look at the modern world, what comes of it is more evil, is more destruction.

Hitler's outward destruction eventually came inward, and you see pictures of what Berlin looked like after the Second World War.

It wasn't just destruction perpetrated outward, as awful as that is.

It's catchy.

Like people used to worry during the time of the Manhattan Project, if you start this chain reaction, will you blow the whole world up?

Or will it stop within this bomb or not?

And we see, okay, the chain reaction of evil hasn't yet blown the whole world up, but look at how the catastrophe unfolds.

And you think 50 to 60 million people dead in the Second World War, which truly was a world war.

What destruction was spread around the globe?

Right, because we think from the perspective of destruction, success would have led to the need to conquer more, then there's factions and infighting, and then eventually you get the same mass destruction, right?

And never does the inaction of evil satisfy what the person is initially seeking.

People want to feel better about themselves.

themselves, right?

Winnicott, who was a British pediatrician who wrote about children and adults from very deep perspectives, he wrote about the idea of good enough, right?

And you can sort of extrapolate that to like, we all want to feel good enough, like not just limp over the line good enough, but I want to feel good enough that I'm a decent person in the world and like what I do matters.

And

You know, I can have an impact on people and, you know, people can like me and care about me.