There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow’s remark turns on a paradox: we often assume that naming an evil—diagnosing it, exposing it, “bringing it to light”—weakens it. He suggests the opposite can be true for certain systemic or perennial forces. “Money” and “war” stand as examples of entrenched human institutions that persist even when their harms are widely recognized and repeatedly analyzed. The line implies a skepticism toward purely intellectual or rhetorical solutions: identification is not the same as remedy. It also hints at Bellow’s broader preoccupation with modernity’s durable pathologies—how rational critique can coexist with, and sometimes even normalize, the continuance of destructive patterns.