The ones I mentioned - vanity, which is ultimately based on stupidity inconsistent with being anywhere near the leadership position.
Of course there are those who benefit - make lots of money - so it's greed and it assumes people not having any morals, hence having nothing to do with true religions, believing instead in the here and now - "grab it all and enjoy controlling the dunces before we're worm food".
But the ones who are employed by them - those are ultimate tools, fools to the infinite degree. Those I despise most of all since they practice idolatry without even realizing it.
Of course. But they hold on to it since it's simpler. Otherwise they'd have to justify it from a much more cynical point of view.
As far as gullibility - from Gorbachev through Yeltsin and to a large extent early Putin - they all believed in a benevolent West. Fools.
Hubris? Greed? The seeds of fools' behavior
The ones I mentioned - vanity, which is ultimately based on stupidity inconsistent with being anywhere near the leadership position.
Of course there are those who benefit - make lots of money - so it's greed and it assumes people not having any morals, hence having nothing to do with true religions, believing instead in the here and now - "grab it all and enjoy controlling the dunces before we're worm food".
But the ones who are employed by them - those are ultimate tools, fools to the infinite degree. Those I despise most of all since they practice idolatry without even realizing it.
Oh hell yeah, plenty of that idolatry stuff goin' down these days.