The concept of evil has been exiled from serious academic discourse, consigned to theology or reduced to psychology. This paper argues that the exile is not an intellectual achievement but a symptom, a symptom of the very capture it ought to name. Drawing on the Master Storytelling framework, this paper proposes that evil operates through the capture of metanarratives by an extreme extrinsic configuration of Value, Motivation, and Purpose (VMP). Not only does it show the mechanism of capture, but how capture remains immune to anyone trying to change it from the outside.
