There is no burden of the centuries if you decide to only believe the things you want to believe. I think the whole "useful vs. right" thinking is just wrong. Serving two masters is one too many. What if you were doing just useful things? Would that include lots of "wrong" things? Why? I think "right vs. wrong" thinking is just a trap. When we were kids we were told that some things are right and others are wrong but as an adult that kind of thinking is not useful. Acutally, even with kids it is just a shortcut because you cannot spend hours explaining everything and at some point the adult just has to declare that something is "wrong".
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