Is there an idempotent evil?

"Is there an idempotent evil?" is a short essay by Karl Jones.

Essay

Is there an idempotent evil?

A singular unitary quality which all evil-doers share?

I am thinking of a Perfectly Evil Universe, where Plato's archetypal Forms are replaced by an archetypal Evil.

We experience the archetypes indirectly, shadows cast on the walls of prison cell.

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Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles