The Goal: The Means is the End

It is said that money, or at least the love of it, is the root of all evil. But
why should it be? After all, the purpose of money is, at its most basic, simply to
facilitate exchangein other words, to connect human gifts with human needs.
What power, what monstrous perversion, has turned money into the opposite: an
agent of scarcity?
Indeed indeed we live in a world of fundamental abundance, a world
where vast quantities of food, energy, and materials go to waste. Half the world
starves while the other half wastes enough to feed the first half.
The war against evil imbues every institution of our society. In agriculture, it
appears as the desire to exterminate wolves, to destroy all weeds with glyphosate,
to kill all the pests. In medicine it is the war against germs, a constant battle against
a hostile world. In religion it is the struggle against sin, or against ego, or against
faithlessness or doubt, or against the outward projection of these things: the devil,
the infidel. It is the mentality of purifying and purging, of self-improvement and
conquest, of rising above nature and transcending desire, of sacrificing oneself in
order to be good. Above all, it is the mentality of control.
It says that once final victory over evil is won, we will enter paradise. When
we eliminate all the terrorists or create an impenetrable barrier to them, we will be
safe. When we develop an irresistible antibiotic and artificial regulation of body
processes, we will have perfect health. When we make crime impossible and have a
law to govern everything, we will have a perfect society. When you overcome your
laziness, your compulsions, your addictions, you will have a perfect life. Until then,
you are just going to have to try harder.
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