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On truth

Experiencing a truth can help to learn or unlearn a truth depending on it's nature. A trivial truth can easily be learned and identified by the simple expedient of seeing or feeling a negative effect from diverting from such trivial truths.

A painful lesson to learn is not always beneficial. Pain alone does not merit the truth. Every truth is idiosyncratic in it's nature. The phrase, "Ignorance is bliss." was coined to identify with negative or unpleasant truths to learn.

On heroes

Kindness in inborn. Altruism is a learned perversity. Heroism and benevolence are rare qualities that are essential to the world. In the sense of opportunistic helpfulness or heroism, everybody is in some small way a hero. But heroes are powerful individuals with the mind and soul of a true hero. Altruism is not heroism, but a minor expression of martyrdom. Martyrs aren't possesed of heroic stuff. They are cowardly and break down with minimal effort. A hero would never destroy itself without the ultimate goal at stake.

On economy

Money is an integral part of what we are taught to seek, and during our early imprinting stages, we can learn to live with a belief in money that mirrors holy faith. Wealth and material are cruel mistresses. People who nature intended to be of bright intellect can, through misfortuante parents, become a clever and shrewd con-man or, worse, a politician if given the impressions of materialism. Money is largely considered the root of all evil by those who, by and large, lack it's gift. Wealth cannot be a privelige, it is merely an alternative lifestyle.