As for your decomposition of sin, I think it’s quite a neat way to describe an abstract term. Selfishness, I believe is the root; stupidity is one of the possible outcomes. I say that because one can be a generous and unselfish fool in the eyes of others. A classic example would be the Man who is seen as a fool to die for the masses who didn’t believe in Him.

Ironically, it may be the case that a person is happier being a fool than an misunderstood and miserable intellect who lives in a world not fitting into his/her ideals…

Many enthusiasts have evangelized and, sadly to observed that many were martyred, either by self-seeking individuals or by the very own hands of paranoiac management that does not believe in such exceedingly excellence of passion. People tend to be cynical, society tend to overvalue profits over ideals that does not fetch immediate benefits - but isn’t knowledge the true gem to last? These noble intentions were perhaps tragically misinterpreted as cultish and activistic, and above all, perceived as threatening obstruction to the cardinal pursuit of profits. Ironically, it is the promise of both individual well-being and corporate wealth that these keen minds are gearing up for.

Corporations need to assure that carte blanche are certain to those who are undaunted to spearhead activistic programs and movements that will eventually make grounds for projections of an infrastructure that is tenable to house collaborative tools and evolving knowledge, keeping the people closely knitted in genuine ties by the virtue of the sodality. Just as in Eclipse where people believe profoundly that the programmers builds the tools, and in turn the tooling environment nurtures the community - in such, a social fabric is thence laid. Ironically, we see no profit motivation, but clearly passion in its noblest and purest form.

But what is require of the social fabric to hold itself together? Under what condition will people be deeply involved and inextricably devoted to the cause? This would return to an ancient anthropological question of satisfying human needs, apart from their delusional, obsessive greed. People want to see pay-offs, whether in terms of material or psychological comfort. Yet people must be disillusioned of their ephemeral happiness that is nothing but pliant. This in turn directs them to something more philosophical and perhaps religious, but didn’t most great thinkers started off from high minded ideals? Foolish it may seem to be romancing in such quixoticism, yet history is written by many of these idealistic poets. We can’t claim for certain that it is barely coincidence that Aristotle was the 1st to coin “a class of fish, a class of birds …”, in accordance adopted by the modern Object-Oriented thinkers of Ada and Java; or was it ever by cheap happenstance that Buddha has asserted the Newtonian’s 3rd Law far before his time?

If sin were to be decomposed, I would think it would be made of 2 components - selfishness and stupidity. They would be the very substances that are plaguing our present era of information age. Human are too selfish to share, and to stupid to seek a higher cause delimited by their lower intellect. In the Pareto’s 80/20 principle, it has to be that 20% to lead the exodus to the land of flowing of milk and honey.

Intellect is a gift, we have to use it wisely. For those who are given the talents, they are entrusted to lead. Though I am disinclined to mention the cliche from the movie, , I can’t think of a better way to put it - “great powers come with great responsibilities”.

Culture has to start from somewhere, before it evolves and flourishes. Something that is seemingly of little value and humble like an amoeba may be the most astounding latent powers that dominates. Every man who codes a harmless snippet will never imagine that it may 1 day become the reason that the state of art to be born. Would John Ruskin thought of inspiring of Gandhi and Martin Luther King when he wrote “Unto this Last” a few centuries before them? Even Confucius who would have thought he died a failure did not foresee that he fathered an enduring ideology.

We just need 10 minutes a day to spark the 1st few animations of miracle. Change may initially falter like a toddler, but it has to start somewhere before it gropes towards its equilibrium. As the culture brews, tools gain wide acceptance, ideas begin to germinate in all directions, parlance of the community becomes canonized, people will be drawn towards the intellectual bon ton. It would be like seem simmering a rock of rigid ice over time, and eventually reaching an uncontrollable state of seething fervor.