The Possibilities with Evil

MARK: What do you mean there’s no Devil – of course there is – look around – don’t you watch tv news or read the papers?

INES: No

MARK: No what?

INES: I don’t read the papers or watch tv news

MARK What? How the hell do you keep track?

INES: Of what?

MARK: Of what’s going on.

INES: What’s going on?

MARK: It’s a nightmare - it’s a disaster – we’re sliding into a cesspool.

INES: So nothing new then.

MARK: No wonder democracy is at a crisis – people need to watch the tv news you know – it’s a …it’s a responsibility

INES: Well on that note – I would say it is definitely good to stay informed – but the industrial entertainment media complex hardly informs

MARK: O my God – don’t tell me you get your info from ...I don't know - Hypnosis or Ouija boards or...Spirits?

INES: If only.

MARK: O no – worse - Facebook

INES: You made a joke – that’s good 

MARK; Your hopeless – anyway – whare do you get this mad idea there’s no evil

INES: O I think there’s evil - I am merely asking you to consider – what would it mean if there was no Devil – a completely separate self-contained Pure Evil entity

MARK: No devil? Currently, the world is full of them - look around

INES: Again  I am not saying there is no evil – I am asking what the cause may be?

MARK: The Devil – evil entities from Hell!

INES: That’s certainly one narrative

MARK: And what’s the other?

INES; That’s what I am asking you to consider.

PAUSE

MARK: There’s evil – there’s no other ‘story’

INES: For those reading – that was air quotes around ‘story’

MARK: Come on – what’s the other…narrative then?

INES: What if there is just us?

MARK: Us?

INES: Humans, and their baggage

MARK: Bullshit – what about  all those spirit worlds you guys believe in – good spirits and bad spirits – entities- ghosts- demons

INES: “You guys”?

MARK: People like you.

INES: Hypnotists? I don’t think that is a Hypnotist thing especially

MARK: You spiritual types

INES: Ah – us guys – the spiritual types

MARK: You cannot say there is not evil abound in the world

INES: Abound?

MARK: Abound, abroad, around, whatever – in the world

INES: I am not saying there isn't evil – I am asking to consider the possibilities of its origin.

MARK: You think we, humans, are the instigators of evil?

INES: Not such a stretch.

MARK: What about those entities, those evil spirits, demons

INES: You met any demons in your travels?

MARK: No but you have.

INES: Well true, but demons as in evil though, not as in demons as in ‘of the devil’ – I am suggesting.

MARK: There good and evil – black and white – stop and go there always two sides always a – whatdoyoucallit?

INES: di·chot·o·my?

MARK: probably – you know ying and yang

INES: That’s definitely how we seem to perceive things – course could be a cultural thing

MARK: No it's NOT

INES: Ok.

PAUSE

MARK: Ok so let’s say, let’s say – we are the Devil and God rolled into one what would that – change

INES: Our possibilities

MARK: Possibilities

INES: For changing

MARK: Changing what?

INES: Everything.

Imagined conversation with Ines Simpson 2020