trading our greatest good for various lesser goods, become autonomous, self-determining, powerful. Time and again we are reminded in history and in our personal pursuits that in falling for this promise, we expose it as a lie. Rather than powerful, autonomous, and self-determining, we become small, chaotic, and slaves to ego and impulse. We become weak. This is both old and new. It is a struggle that no one can escape in this life. But something has changed in our understanding of this struggle, and