Relationships are fleeting. They can be destroyed by the most fickle things: small differences of opinions, influence of other friends, arguments about the most ridiculous things. But they can also be created just as quickly as they can be dissolved. Two people can meet and immediately become best friends, leaving their other friends behind to find someone new to gossip, complain and argue with incessantly. Once the people an individual hung out with are gone and one is left alone with the person he deems more worthy of attention than old friends, that person is prone to discover certain unpleasant and unbearable habits in everyone's "friend" . of the trust placed in him. Yet a person would rather continue to suffer with an individual they have learned to despise only to be thrown back into society's churn, replenished with an incessant supply of faces, opting for a negative relationship instead of discovering someone who sincerely compliments their personality , improves the sharpness of the mind, clarifies the destined path. For as imperfect, naive, self-deprecating human beings, always concerned with the perception of others, “we are inclined to close our eyes to a painful truth and listen to the siren song until it turns us into beasts” (Henry) . All of humanity would rather sit back and watch as the world slowly cracks and falls apart around them instead of standing their ground, defending their individual rights, resisting the despotism of tyranny. Governments are inclined to gobble up as much power as possible, as much autonomy as their subjects are willing to give them. The state will dominate every aspect of a person's life: occupation, religion, life of... middle of paper... and cretinous; to them their spiritual beliefs are irrevocably superior, those of the rest of the world, simply wild, those who adhere to them are in desperate, immediate need of "salvation". And while people continue to “pronounce blessed those who most resemble the gods” (Aristotle), religion will inevitably and forever be a pawn in the hands of tyrants. Thus, by authorizing religion and invented stories of creation, falsified accounts of women's inferiority to men, and fictitious claims that suffering is better than challenging the accompanying tyranny to dictate life choices, people will never be truly free, regardless of the actions of their government. . But if humanity is naturally inclined to follow the laws of government and the apparent guidance of religion, how can humanity ensure that spiritual and intellectual individuality will ever be fully achieved??