Here is how Kevin puts the idea, always succinctly: “It’s generally trauma that opens doors in the psyche. . . . Since ‘trauma’ opens the doors more than anything, that’s why ‘the Other’ tends to manifest as ‘evil’ and not ‘good.’ . . . It took me freaking nearly forever to learn why the ‘Phenomenon’ is nearly universally ‘nasty’ and not ‘good.’ It’s because the part of the human mind that brings it in is hurt and nasty. . . . That’s the simple truth to it.”
