I'm copying this from my notebook before I forget how to read the scribbles

We deny the pursuit of any one extreme; to which it follows that we deny the advocation of any one extreme to cause the consequence of its opposite. Failure does not cause success, ignorance does not cause enlightenment, hate does not cause love, war does not cause peace, sin does not cause innocence.

To the extent that we choose to keep ourselves in a calculated ignorance, we do not concern ourselves with the workings of the politicians and powerful people, but the cultural directions of the common man.