"Inherently unfair and often dark" was an exaggeration on my part. The universe is benevolent by default because it has absolutely no supernatural character,

"Inherently unfair and often dark" was an exaggeration on my part. The universe is benevolent by default because it has absolutely no supernatural character, Wouldn't this make it utterly neutral? What I meant to say, and didn't articulate very well, is that human societies have egregious failures that often undermine progress. Most people are good, but most of the people who get power and status (at least in the short-term, first-order senses of these words) are the despicable, evil ones.