I acquired
Political Ponerology in May of 2016 - and have been a student of the subject, even where I entered into business dealings with full blown psychopaths beginning in the late 1990s. One might wonder why I would do that? A.) I am fearless B.) I am curious C.) Whatever happens, I will wake up just fine in the next life.
I would not want to have the future experiences of one who has lost connection with the very nature and understanding of their being.
My opinion - The entire western world culture, as a whole, is functionally psychopathic (with a tiny few individual exceptions). Much of the rest of the world's cultures are also mostly if not entirely functionally psychopathic. The few cultural exeptions that may remain are the few self-isolated (as best they might) indigenous cultures though they have been systematically culled out or assimilated over the last several centuries.
IMO, planet Earth is at the precipice of either self-destruction or true transformation into the next holonic leap in reality. Mars can be repeated or, we can get it this time. I'm happy either way frankly though I prefer the latter.
IMO, the "good vs evil" thing is secondary to assessing what is a.) life affirming, life supporting, life creating, life preserving weighed against b.) life limiting, life deconstructing, life destroying... more easily viewed as life vs anti-life. Anyone can look upon anything in life, including their own thoughts, and assess whether they see that which they are observing as one or the other. Then, once they have done that, choose the next move. If it is just a thought, de-power the thought by using this very process though, one first must do the exercise for themselves as to which they support, life or anti-life.
Few do this simple exercise. Instead they do things like look at what is clearly anti-life and divide it into bad and evil which gives plenty of anti-life elements too much wiggle room. In addition, it sets up all the unnecessary blabberings of what may be evil and what may simply be bad, as if that even matters. Deflection is all that is.
The simple formula is, examine within yourself, do you love life? Or do you not care either way Or, do you loathe life. One must be truly self honest to do this. One must be ever vigilant that one might be deceiving oneself... but ask the question and work to establishing a truthful answer.
This is the hard part but once you are pretty darn certain you are "pro life and the life experience" then begin to examine everything as either life (supporting, affirming, preserving, creating) or anti-life (limiting, deconstructing, destroying) and then, act upon your assessments in regards to which you have chosen, life favoring or anti-life favoring.
No need for religion, not even spirituality, no "isms" (even one like Gnosticism), etc. No lens clouding one's vision, no distraction or distortion. Pure, clear, direct.
It's simple to understand and the current batch of Earth humans find it quite hard to understand, thus most don't ever get to the all important doing. I am just an observer now to the folly. Again, I'll wake up just as happy in the next chapter of my individuated experiential journey.