Warring gods... supposedly led all the evils of the world to be unleashed because of simple fire.
The gift of self awareness.. intellect.. self respect was met by a "god" to unleash to full force the negative results of those discoveries.
I speak of Pandoras box.
The idea an innocent action such as realising you are free... was punished by an author ian destructive god... Zeus.
Prometheus for whatever motivation gave man "fire" call it insight or technology but typically fire means opportunity and realization the ability to destroy as the gods do perhaps?
Give a monkey a gun... he can harm his keeper..
One things for sure... when the powerful have it "ideal" or "good" an innocent slip a slight a tiny act of rebellion that fractures or even threatens to blemish that illusion occurs.
All hell reigns down.
The same is true when you deal with the unclean... They know Cardamine elongates life makes one immune to conditions and expands the mind.. it is no mere "drug".
Sure some use it like a "drug" and thats slavery is all they can receive from it.. But Cardamine is not pandoras box... no. it is the fire.
Pandoras box released -all- evils. And as the fable goes one thing was left within it... perhaps the most insidious evil of all.
"hope"
The box of evil was not mis categorized... it wasn't a haphazard story written that was to be corrected later to say.. 1001 evils and one GOOD thing in an evil box that makes every "O.K."
Hope is evil. Hope is the knife that has dulled from lac k of use, the heart smothering the mind into sloth so that nothing is done and that the sands of the hour glass are left to save you.
Hope placates the weak, It stuns, id mineralised fire. Its the last illusion of evil you hold onto... as the last bomb falls... the axe swings..
maybe it'll miss..
I hope this doesn't hurt..
Illusion is the noose of the tyrant... We do not offer the clean and the faithful hope.
We do not suffer fools.
We offer the fire.. and only the fire.. the object that gets you in trouble with the gods it the KEY to your FREEDOM...