A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.
. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
Time will unfold its leaves.