Evil Has Been Successful

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From a book that I am writing. This is from a section observing how we can see the patterns of how evil has worked in our world through history. This is very clear especially in the middle 19th century. In that century, multiple movements sprung up to replace the church, 

"What would replace it? The state. The state would be people’s saviour. We Aussies, and many other westerners in England and American tend to look at Marxism as crazy. But Marx has gotten the last laugh. People now demand the state raise their kids, heal their illnesses, pay for the all welfare, protect them from every threat, instead of threats too big for them to do on their own, pay for their retirement, look after their aged, tell them when it’s safe to go outside and more. Marx’s vision is being enacted in our time, and because it has been slow and steady most people cannot see the water is starting to boil."

There was once a time when most of society, correctly, believed that most of these things were the responsibility of the family, the church and other charitable organizations. By demanding the state do everything, we have now empowered it to believe it should do everything, and it will only continue to increase in doing everything, because most Aussies actually now want this, because it is all they really know. This is also true in other parts of the West. Evil worked out that it did not need to conquer us with force, this has actually backfired in some parts of the world, rather it could just buy society off, and this has worked far more successfully. Through this effort, evil has been far more successful.