Scions of Cain, their ultimate grievance is with God and His creation. The fundamental nature of which requires them to strive and suffer in exchange for a conciousness that they despise, yet are too cowardly to end. And the knowledge of that cowardice further drives their hatred of anyone who is hopeful instead of bitter like they are.
The idiotic idealism of those who delude themselves into believing that they can make a life without suffering if they get the systems just right (and in the process necessarily destroy everything else, including human nature, morals and aesthetics).
The better-informed clever Cains, who use the former into making them a Tower of Babel where they can be in charge, with slaves and pleasure and no fear of losing their wealth and position through neglect and competition.
Scions of Cain, their ultimate grievance is with God and His creation. The fundamental nature of which requires them to strive and suffer in exchange for a conciousness that they despise, yet are too cowardly to end. And the knowledge of that cowardice further drives their hatred of anyone who is hopeful instead of bitter like they are.
Yes. Mix into that the two totalitarian mindsets:
The idiotic idealism of those who delude themselves into believing that they can make a life without suffering if they get the systems just right (and in the process necessarily destroy everything else, including human nature, morals and aesthetics).
The better-informed clever Cains, who use the former into making them a Tower of Babel where they can be in charge, with slaves and pleasure and no fear of losing their wealth and position through neglect and competition.
To quote from Empty by Emperor:
How furiously and bombastic
He proclaimed his destruction of a mortal coil
In the end it seemed
This was his only possession