Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.

The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.