After expanding and weighing each force, and removing what is merely difficult or imperfect from what is truly evil in intent or consequence, I would now frame the core systemic evils of humankind today as follows:

The Six Systemic Evils of the Modern World

1. Power without accountability

When political, economic, or technological power concentrates in a few hands and operates beyond ethical oversight, it breeds oppression, corruption, exploitation, and war.

• Forms: authoritarian regimes, corporate monopolies, unregulated surveillance, militarization, plutocracy.
• Consequence: large-scale suffering enabled by impunity.

2. Institutionalized inequality

Systems built to advantage a few and marginalize the many — by wealth, class, race, gender, geography, or status — produce persistent deprivation and despair.

• Forms: extractive economies, predatory lending, exploitative labor markets, unequal access to healthcare and education.
• Consequence: generational poverty and the normalization of preventable suffering.

3. Exploitation of life and the natural world

Human and animal life — and the planet itself — are treated as expendable resources for profit or convenience.

• Forms: industrial-scale animal cruelty, environmental destruction, forced labor, extractive capitalism.
• Consequence: mass suffering, ecological collapse, and the erosion of the planet’s ability to sustain life.

4. Deliberate deception and erosion of truth

When powerful actors manipulate information, spread disinformation, or suppress knowledge to maintain control or profit, truth — the foundation of justice — collapses.

• Forms: propaganda, censorship, algorithmic manipulation, false equivalence in media.
• Consequence: societies lose moral and factual grounding, enabling all other evils to flourish unseen.

5. Apathy and moral disengagement

Perhaps the most silent evil: the widespread acceptance or indifference to suffering when it could be prevented.

• Forms: political apathy, consumer complacency, bystander effect at scale.
• Consequence: ordinary people, through inaction, become enablers of extraordinary harm.

6. Suppression of conscience, faith, and alternative worldviews

This includes two linked failures:

• A) Active oppression: persecution, coercion, or vilification of people for their spiritual or philosophical beliefs — faith used as a weapon rather than a bridge.
• B) Structural exclusion: modern civilization’s rigidity leaves no moral, legal, or practical space for those who wish to live differently — to reject technology, bureaucracy, or industrial life without penalty.

Both deny human autonomy and diversity of spirit — one through force, the other through systemic uniformity.

• Consequence: cultures, faiths, and philosophies are erased or driven to the margins; freedom of thought and conscience is reduced to a slogan.

Condensed insight