Live to Do Evil

Vittorio Pavoncello

Evil is a plurality of voices. Therefore, I built my text as an expression of multiple

voices. A letter defines each entry. The letters of the alphabet mix. Each alphabet
contains or can build with its letters, the word evil. In the letters, the word evil is not
there. It is up to man to build it or let evil not come out of the language. Evil is a
human experience.
a—b—c—d—e—f—g—h—i—j—k—l—m—n—o—p—q—r—s—t—u—v—
w—x—y—z
(a) Let us imagine that my text is a scientific book.
(b) I wrote about Shakespeare’s Macbeth and I mentioned the goddess Hecate.
(c) I have to write the index of names.
(d) There is no scientific evidence for Hecate’s existence.
(e) Hecate is a Greek goddess and her origin is pre-Olympic.
(f)She holds the keys of the cosmos.
(g) The nature of Hecate is bisexual; she has both the generation principles.
(h) Hecate is one and a couple.
(i)The spouses Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are like her.
(j)Hecate is an entity formed by a couple. It is threefold.
(k) Hecate awaits the travellers at the crossroads of the paths.
(l)Hecate dominates the choice of a way.
(m) Hecate has the power to grant or prohibit the implementation of his desires.
(n) Hecate can grant or forbid man to implement his wishes.
(o) However, Hecate never existed. There is no evidence of her existence.
(p) Hecate fact: we have only the cults dedicated to her.
(q) Statues, temples, writings by classical authors describe and speak of the
goddess.
(r) No evidence of her existence or her effect on reality.

V. Pavoncello (*)
Rome, Italy

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 197
L. Dryjanska, G. Pacifici (eds.), Evil in the Modern World,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91888-0_13
198 V. Pavoncello

(s) Testable effects on reality.

(t) Hecate is not a real name. Although she existed as a goddess.
(u) The Hecate name is an invented name.
(v) Yet Hecate leads Macbeth to evil.
(w) This is what happens with evil: there but not there.
(x) The mafia has always said that the mafia does not exist.
(y) This claim is a prototype of denial.
(z) The mafia denies its existence, like Nazi fascism denies the Shoah, and fools
deny climate change.
(ab) Evil is there but not there.
(ac) You can see it but it does not exist.
(ad) It seems that evil has a theatrical behavior.
(ae) Evil is the fiction of a reality. Or a fake reality.
(af) So is evil a character?
(ag) In fact, the character of the villain is present in every drama.
(ah) Evil is the drama of humanity.
(ai) Jean Duvignad says: Humanity lives its own drama through the theater.
And tragic tension or derision offer us, under the mask of legendary or
invented characters, the spectacle of the tensions. That confront each other
at the deepest level of collective experience. Theater is much more than
theater . . . Man is the dream of a shadow, says Hesiod. The theater is the
part of the shade. The shadow that casts us towards the future, towards the
incomplete.
(aj) Theater is a social product that expresses the deep structures of a society.
(ak) Only the theater can allow us to see Hecate.
(al) The theater also allows us to see witches.
(am) Also, how witches reduce Macbeth and his wife to a single agent of evil.
(an) In nature, evil does not exist.
(ao) But, evil exists only in our society.
(ap) In the animal world, killing is not only necessary but also indispensable.
(aq) The herd of wild animals is a social organization aimed at nourishment.
(ar) Is the herd of wild animals an evil agency?
(as) To kill for nourishment is not evil.
(at) Joining in a wild herd to catch prey is not evil.
(au) But man is no longer an animal and not yet a man.
(av) A man who kills another man does a crime.
(aw) Ten men against one man commit a crime.
(ax) They are a gang and each of them a gangster.
(ay) Thousands of men against other men do not commit a crime but a war.
(az) In a war, killing is a necessary fact, but it is not necessarily necessary.
(abc) They accomplish a crime and make a war.
(abd) From an animal nature point of view, war is not a crime.
(abe) Nevertheless, war is a crime if committed with heinous means, and if it
destroys the masses.
Live to Do Evil 199

(abf) An enemy does not eat the body of his enemy.

(abg) The famous lion that kills the famous gazelle eats what he kills.
(abh) Moreover, to affirm that the title is true: live to do evil, or living is
something that has nothing to do with evil.
(abi) Yet, we know that the lion kills the gazelle because food chain
forces him.
(abj) Instead, man kills the lion and the gazelle for other purposes, and not to
eat them.
(abk) Man’s life is a continuous exchange of means and ends.
(abl) The definition of evil changes, changes with the changing of societies.
(abm) Evil becomes history. And evil begins to have its own history.
(abn) Dystopia is a strange mirror.
(abo) Imagine a society where Nazism had won.
(abp) In this type of society, evil would be to save Jews, homosexuals,
gypsies, blacks.
(abq) Killing them would be good.
(abr) Not killing them would be bad.
(abs) Evil would be related to a Nazi observer.
(abt) A society that offers human sacrifices feels they are in good.
(abu) The good is defined by salvation and health.
(abv) The concept of evil is relative to its purpose. And it can be judged from
the point of view of the purposes for which you can be forced to do the
so-called evil.
(abw) Are there other means, not evil, to pursue the ends that evil aims at?
(abx) Anthropocene: we have to use evil against each other?
(aby) Who uses evil is evil?
(abz) If to achieve a result it was possible to use any means but evil, the end
would not be evil.
(abcd) Without having killed 6 million Jews, for Nazism would it have been
possible to preserve the Aryan race?
(abce) Nazism was first an ideology and then a science.
(abcf) Nazism was unable to admit that only genetic diversification saves
humanity.
(abcg) Nazism knows that all the populations it wanted to enslave or destroy
had DNA like Aryans.
(abch) In addition, Aryans was a term of convenience.
(abci) The Nazis wanted to hit epigenetic.
(abcj) Epigenetic is not in DNA, but inside behaviors, culture, inheritable, and
transmissible.
(abck) Nazism wanted to avoid possible epigenetic transmission in genes. By
avoiding, therefore, the recurrence of elements of “inferior races” in Aryan
contexts.
(abcl) For Nazism, the ends and means coincided. Moreover, no other solu-
tion was possible except the Final Solution.
200 V. Pavoncello

(abcm) Therefore evil in means and evil in purpose. Not proposing any other
solution except extermination.
(abcn) Therefore, there is no evil but it exists. Evil is accomplished in DNA
even though it is not written as evil.
(abco) Evil is like magic. It is a short way to reality.
(abcp) There are those who believe in magic and those who believe in evil.
(abcq) We must also ask ourselves: why some people do not evil?
(abcr) In this book, we talk about evil agencies. Organized structures to
do evil.
(abcs) Yes, but why some do evil and others do not?
(abct) In evil people, it can be easy to find out why they do evil.
(abcu) What can anyone who does not want to commit evil tell us about evil?
(abcv) And who agrees to be a victim? Is it just weakness?
(abcw) Evil is the exercise of a force. A force that can be relative or partial, but
effective for the purpose.
(abcz) Whoever does not do evil, delegates to society to use that minor force
which is the Law.
(abcy) The Law is a force recognized by the community.
(abcz) And back to our Macbeth:
(abcd) Act II
Scene II, Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth:
The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us.
(abcde) Malum (evil) is what has not succeeded, what is not presented in
complete form, what is not perfect (Massimo Cacciari).
(abcdf) Evil is what cannot be finished.
(abcdg) Evil has ends it does not reach.
(abcdh) Evil uses evil means to an evil that it cannot complete.
(abcdi) As if to say: evil wins many battles without ever winning any war.
(abcdj) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are evil agency models.
(abcdl) But Macbeth also provides us with a model to overcome evil.
(abcdm) Man-born Macduff defeats evil by killing Macbeth.
(abcdn) Macduff was born from a Cesarean section. The Cesarean section is
human intellectual creation that nature cannot do.
(abcdo) We must, so, to the evil that exists in nature, use double words.
(abcdp) Words that understand evil, words that make it seem human, but
cheat the evil.
(abcdq) If evil is natural, it is man’s job to neutralize it.
(abcdr) Time is the strongest opponent of evil.
(abcds) Act V.
Scene IV. Country near Birnam wood.
Macbeth
Live to Do Evil 201

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

(abcdt) Dead Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are too selfish even in evil.
(abcdu) They will leave the evil of Hecate, without the goddess having more
evil agents.

Vittorio Pavoncello is a director, writer, artist, has created theater shows, films, and exhibitions.
La scelta di Turing show on the mathematician A.M. Turing set in a computerized future and where
human cloning is common practice; Il clima cambia la musica no, where a group of migrant poets
finds themselves part of a UN ecology program; Il nuovo pianeta with L. Gregoretti, Anfiteatro
Flavio Colosseo against the death penalty; Cicero o Il regno della parola, with Anna Foa, Teatro
India Roma.
Exhibitions: Il popolo del sogno, 50 engravings from the Bible, Vittoriano Museum; Human
Gravitation Project Squashed, 50 sculptures in collaboration Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
Nucleare—Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Forte Spagnolo Museum, L’Aquila. NOVELS:
Spam story 2009; Tutte le foto del mondo tranne una, about young hikikomori, Capalbio Interna-
tional Award 2017, Edizioni Progetto Cultura. ESSAYS: 2013 Il serpente nel Big Bang, and
Cheese! Un mondo di selfie, Mimesis Edizioni 2016; Shylock e il suo mercante, Edizioni Aracne,
2016; Hitler non è mai esistito. Un memorabile oblio, Furio Colombo and V. Pavoncello 2018 Celid
Editore. He is currently director of ECAD, and created the SpamLife artistic movement.