Does not the acceptance of a spurious perfection end the search for true perfection? - Matt Hughes

"From within such a calcified culture, no change can be generated; the impetus for reform must arise from without. Hence, the external threat posed by Hunan Diath."
"Who does not exist," said Filidor.
"Who need not exist," said Gaskarth, "so long as the idea can do its work."

Assigning blame is a fixation of an ineffective mind.

I cannot comment on your beliefs. What appears self-evident to one person may seem to another observer to be entirely the product of an idiosyncratic bent.