‘In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete, from logic to epilepsy … whence the birth of ideologies, doctrines, deadly games.’
– E. M. Cioran
The world needs education, it needs to learn it is time to go beyond the restriction of negativity perpetuated by religion; It needs to determine that the value of humankind is not in whether or not it believes in some particular deity of choice, but the belief in humanity as a whole. Continue reading