Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.
Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.
Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.
If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.
Attacking genius and passion as immoral , the ? cries "how dare they?" and answers with its own question...