@krnel - your post is very relevant in this era of "new age" spirituality, wherein people are encouraged to avoid everything that is evil, dont even look at it or confront it or try to comprehend it. Instead just keep a narrow focus on whats good and virtuous and the consciousness will automatically purify.

What resonates me with this post of yours is that you cannot transcend this realm spiritually without looking very closely at its hidden workings. And it is a stinky deceitful violent and parasitic world indeed. We have a group of people controlling all important land and wealth creation on this planet, we have Geoengineers manipulating the climate and creating storm systems almost twice a week, we have social engineers deepening the chasm in the collective consciousness based on caste, creed, religion, sect, sex or color, we have pedophiles placed at the highest rungs of government who rape and murder kids, we have media selling lies to start wars on innocent people, we have a mutigenerationally confused population perennially hooked on drugs flouride porn and socialmedia.

But thats not all- we do have a living and feeling universe, we have the creator working through all of us,only if we open our eyes to realise it.

So you are right on, just a narrow focus on viture will only end up in virtue signalling. New age is truly the new cage. And we need to look and accept all that is unholy to realise whats is here that is not affected by virtue or vice, that simply is, more fundamental than space, eternal before time.