"Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God's justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do then anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them too." Paul, formerly Saul - A.D. 57

Roosevelt's observation of the human condition is instructive: educating just the mind with one's ladder leaning firmly against The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil also enhances man's ability and capacity for greater evil.

As a landscape photographer, I know from experience that photography is 90 percent seeing and 10 percent photographing. A picture seen in this quote are opposing perspectives of mentality & attitude relative to structure: top-down vs. bottom-up. However, both Hitler, a right-wing facist and Stalin, a left-wing socialist, through poles apart politically, became kings in their sandboxes by constructing pyramid organization structues to exercise rigid control of their respective constitutiencies, neighbors and unleash misery and death on millions. There's just one solitary life who's effected the course of history bottom-up rather than top down.