Murderous Idealism

One of mankind's worst faults is the tendency to idealize. The key philosopher here is Plato, whose idealism became incorporated into Christianity, along with the Jewish notion of an ideal, all-powerful God. As Islam has correctly noted, adding Jesus to this pure mix was a perversion. But Christians don't see it this way, and are perfectly happy to slaughter anyone who disagrees with them. Idealism is murderous and needs enemies to destroy. But its main enemy always turns out to be itself, and it self-destructs. 

This approach has now morphed from a theology into an ideology, with business being our new religion. But the attitude is the same: the market economy (previously referred to as capitalism) will solve all our problems - if we only allow it to take over completely. The same approach used by the Taliban.

We still haven't learned that the more perfect the answer, the more horrible its consequences.