Why does evil always win?

[Nau7ik]

Another key component to this major distortion is the human relationship to authority. Very young, we are taught to simply treat people the way we want to be treated, but later on, that becomes supplanted and distorted by "respect for authority" and hierarchy. We are taught to be of service authority figures, and basically that authority is right even when it is wrong. We are taught that duty and obedience are more important than love and happiness and living by the principles we feel in our own hearts, and that outside authority is above the authority in our own hearts. We are taught that respect is a one way street that some people are entitled to it based on their authority, yet others have to earn it because of their relative position in the pecking order(even when it comes to simple orange ray relationships like parent and child). The people in the positions of authority tend to view those "under" them as human resources rather than "charges" who's well being and happiness they are responsible for facilitating(they want the authority, but not the responsibility that comes with it).

Those with a natural STO inclination can then find themselves wasting their time and energy serving morally and intellectually deficit authority figures and thinking they are "doing their duty" by making such sacrifices and self-denial, even though it is all wasted on STS people and institutions who create nothing but misery and entropy and waste, and continue to perpetuate a zero-sum system of "winners and losers" rather than a zero-point system of efficient symbiosis and teamwork.

I 100% agree with this. There’s a subconscious notion that authority figures should be obeyed. There is an unquestioned obedience based on the very fact that the person or organization is perceived subconsciously to know better than the self. I think that authority is perceived as parental figures by many.

This is a theme that runs so deep, you cannot get through to someone unless they, of their own free will, have chosen to disconnect themselves from the consensus Matrix and to begin discerning truth for themselves.

We can understand these principles through the Tarot cards: the Devil and the Tower.

The Devil represents humans ignorantly binding themselves to a false perception of reality, a materialistic perspective steeped in ignorance, wherein the animal nature is dominating the personality. The chains on their necks can be easily removed. When one begins to perceive the chains around his neck, he is experiencing the first stage of spiritual unfoldment. The Devil is own true Higher Self. Compare Key 15 with Key 6, the Lovers.

Next, comes the destruction, by a sudden momentary glimpse of truth, of the false mental narratives we hold in our minds. The Tower is struck by lightning: This represents the breakdown of ignorance and false reasoning. The knocking off of the crown from the Tower represents the materialistic notion that matter and form are the ruling principles of existence. The falling figures are those in the Devil, except they are fully clothed and falling headfirst. In false knowledge subconscious motives are permitted to dominate the personality (reversal of colors; man in blue(subconscious) and woman in red(conscious).) The sudden influx of spiritual consciousness completely upsets all of our old notions bout the relationship between subconsciousness and self consciousness, hence the figures fall headfirst. The Tower represents the second stage of spiritual unfoldment.