evil – the opposite of God – led by the demon called the satan – a conscious force smarter than all humanity combined (in terms of cunningness, not in terms of love) you see, evil doesn’t mind if you dedicate every waking minute to wisdom (as the Greeks did) ironically, even every waking minute to building civilization, as Rome and its progenitors, us in the west do – all evil wants, is for you to hate, for then everything you do is not constructive but destructive