The "necessary evils" of civilization, lead to the ascendancy of chaotic evil (under conditions of modern consciousness)

I am pessimistically convinced that the "chaotic evil*" of the self-imploding Western totalitarian system is going to prevail; and for deep, inescapable reasons. 

If we survey the history of civilizations, it is always apparent that each is characterized by "necessary evils" - most often in the form of human coercion and manipulation. All military and police activities are an example of necessary evils; and all religions include them as well. 

Nonetheless, in the remote past some civilizations (e.g. Ancient Egypt, Eastern Roman "Byzantine" Empire) were intrinsically stable and lasting - although any society can, of course, be overcome by attack from a more powerful external threat.

(The contrast is with civilizations that destroy themselves; whether passively by neglect and/or by stupidity; or - as now - actively, with self-hatred and by value-inversion.)

My understanding is that this multi-generational innate stability of ancient civilizations was made possible by a more groupish form of human consciousness, whereby there was a spontaneous (mostly unconscious) sharing of awareness between people - especially when there were hereditary links. 

In such conditions, it seems that the necessary evils were tolerated long-term for the benefit of the group - such group benefits as civil peace, defence against invasion, stable food supply, greater comfort and convenience; and the consolations and joys of religion.

Necessary evils were tolerated - but more importantly they were constrained, confined, encapsulated; so that the evil did not expand - and destroy the society. 

It is this restriction of necessary evils - preventing their longitudinal increase - that has become impossible in modernity.  

It has always been the case that individuals, especially the most powerful individuals, had to give-up personal gratifications to attain these group benefits. 

This happened in the past (I am suggesting) due to spontaneous and unconscious reasons; sometimes from to genetic relatedness between the rulers and the ruled; and/or from a shared and powerful religion. 

However; human consciousness has changed, and become increasingly more self-aware and individual, especially over the past two-three hundred years. 

So that powerful individuals are now much more aware of their own personal wants and how these conflict with the "good of the group"; more aware of their immediate and certain gratifications and how these differ from long-term probabilistic benefits; and they lack the unconscious and spontaneous sense (and duty) of being immersed inside a valued societal group that would once have constrained such selfishness and short-termism.

In spiritual terms; in the past individual evils were (most of the time) innately restrained by groupishness; whereas with modern consciousness this has ceased to be the case. 

Furthermore, all historical societies functioned "inside" religion: their world view was involuntarily through the lens of religion, which was larger than any individual. 

(This is a generalization - albeit a strong one, But there probably were exceptions, when an individualistic - perhaps psychopathic/ incapable of empathy - individual would act with increased selfishness and callousness (a.g. Caligula); or would disbelieve the state-religion and therefore broach its restraints - e.g. Some of the perpetrators of the great horrors of history probably ensued, when such a person was in a position of power (e.g. Akhenaten).   

The situation at present is that all the nations and international groupings of the modern world (even the better ones, even the best of them) are totalitarian in nature - which is a kind of "lawful evil"*; and, as such, are net-evil.  

All are societies in which the civilizationally-required elements of "necessary evil" are very strong, and core, and ineradicable.

(Which is why, especially since the 1960s, there has been such a strong counter-cultural tendency - rooted in opposition to the particular necessary evils; but - dishonestly and fatally - without understanding or acknowledging that such evils are inevitable in any possible civilization.) 

Add to this that evil is not static; but tends to feed upon itself and increase - especially when evil is un-repented, as happens (usually) when evils are necessary to continued worldly survival. 

Thus I believe and have often argued that - under modern conditions - lawful evil degenerates inevitably into chaotic evil, due to the (sooner or later) irresistible pressure of increased selfishness and short-termism among those with power. 

I get a strong sense that exactly this is happening - that the agents of lawful evil are progressively weakening, and those of chaotic evil are strengthening, at a world civilizational level; and that will become evident very soon - perhaps within a few days. 

Because of the "compromises" (i.e. necessary evils) of modern totalitarianism, and because of the nature of modern consciousness; modern societies cannot hold-the-line at the necessary evils of a nation. The necessary evils will expand, and the goodness will be eroded. 

So; I mean that there will be (under whatever lying disguise, and will the self-blinded collusion of the totalitarian bureaucrats) a major action that will tend to provoke global chaos. 

But if not now then soon - because there are no countervailing material powers that are sufficiently aligned with good, and sufficiently strong/ cohesive, to stop and reverse the waxing trend towards chaos. 

*See this later post, for further explanation of Chaotic and Lawful types of evil.