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Freedom gives birth to evil as well as good. Therefore evil does not deny the existence of meaning, but rather confirms it. Freedom is not created, because it is not nature; freedom existed before the world began, it is rooted in immemorial nothingness. God is almighty over being, but not over nothingness, or over freedom. This from Berdyaev-https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Berdyaev/qf.htm.

According to Berdyaev, the actions of a being possessing free will cannot be forseen even by God, since they are entirely free. Berdyaev denies God's omnipotence and omniscience and maintains that He does not create the cosmic entities' will, which springs from the UNGRUND, but merely helps that will to become good; he is led to that conclusion by his conviction that freedom cannot be created and that if it were, God would be responsible for cosmic evil. A theodicy would then be impossible, Berdyaev thinks.

Evil arises when the irrational freedom leads to the violation of the Divine hierarchy of being and to seperation from God owing to the pride of the spirit desiring to put itself in the place of God. This results in disintegration, in material and natural being, and in slavery instead of freedom. But in the last resort, the origin of evil remains the greatest and most inexplicable mystery (AN ESSAY ON ESCHATOLOGICAL METAPHYSICS, 127)

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We are now all trapped patterned and controlled by an all powerful tower of babble (babel) in which we now "live". A tower of babble (babel) which is completely indifferent to and impervious to any kind of positive change posited by any and everyone's objections to it however valid.

At present, a dark anti-"culture" of total war, a "culture" of death, is ruling, while the people are engrossed in self-oblivious consumerism. The modern everyman of consumer society is a propagandized individual, participating in a "culture" of illusions and, effectively, self-destructing.

An anti-"culture" which combines the dark scenarios of both Brave New World and 1984. As described in this essay: http://www.truthout.com/articles/2011-a-brave-new-dystopia

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