I thought this was Theo Von at first! Enjoyed Philip very much in this interview and don't have much to say as I can't disagree with it. Edit: okay I guess I had more to say than I thought.
Question at the end: what do we make of the government's involvement in evil?
In short, this is a farm. The state is the visible tip of the ice berg of the power structures that run this farm. Many on the farm being sheep themselves do their best to care for the sheep. Some enjoy eating a humanely slaughtered sheep every now and then. Others like to laugh about how stupid the sheep are and pick on them and some like to screw the sheep or torture the sheep for fun.
Sometimes they mock the sheep...
In one sense, people are animals in various stages of domestication and the predator class just like any farmer would like to make their flock more manageable and pet-like. Why are they trying to get us to stop eating meat? Is it really because of CO2 or are we merely being de-clawed and turned into herbivores? Does a chihuahua care that he isn't as powerful as his wolf-like ancestors? As long as someone puts food in the bowl, and pats him on the head, he doesn't care. Some of us see this domestication process happening and resent the idea that we or our offspring would be reduced from fearsome wild free predator to weak and humble pet.
Those in power are of course interested in how to have more power, and some have no limits of what they are willing to do to get more of it, so they are also interested in things like, mind control, mass marketing, torturing people into dissociated states, the extraction of emotional energy from a subject with intent to affect physical reality (psychokinesis or poltergeist activity on demand), and life extension technology to live forever.
If I had to guess I'd say they don't see themselves as evil any more than they see a lion as evil for playing with a mouse before eating it. The world is built on pain with countless deaths and struggles resulting in the present state, so from the world builder's perspective is it evil to cause pain and loss?
Competing with the predatory perspective which steals the future of the weak and hands it to presently powerful, is the empathetic perspective which recognizes that death must come and with it all is lost, so the only way to have power and influence over the future is to care for the young and train them up to build a world that likewise cares for the future and wants to sacrifice self to build it up for others to enjoy.
Reptile babies don't require care so reptiles are predators without any development of empathy. Mammal babies require a lot of care and human babies require the most, so we are forced to care about the future and sacrifice ourselves for our species to carry on into the future. This started a feedback loop in which increased intelligence was required to plan for the future and solve problems. Increased intelligence made our heads bigger and our development period longer requiring even more planning for the future. Now we have become the most intelligent and most empathetic creatures on the planet with the most helpless babies on the planet and yet we are still also predators although we are usually kinder to our prey than most other predators, caring for them, providing them all their needs, and giving them a quick painless death.
Can a world be built that is not built on pain and death? Without these, what drives us to strive for the future of the young? And without such a struggle sacrificing ourselves for others in the face of forces wishing to destroy our offspring, good and evil has lost its meaning. The knowledge of good and evil are inextricably tied to death and birth. When they ate the fruit, they would die, so the woman was renamed "Eve" the mother of all the living. Birth/death/good/evil, package deal. And they were cut off from the Tree of Life... now why was that? Predator class closing the door to keep the plebs from joining them? History and reality is a fractal, so maybe...