When people commemorate past heroes, I see the very act of commemoration as a form of corruption.

 When people commemorate past heroes, I see the very act of commemoration as a form of corruption. For if their so-called “heroism” were truly heroic, there would be no need for worship. The present conditions would have evolved so favorably that any connection to past values would have dissolved naturally, making it absurd to hold ceremonies in honor of humans who lived centuries ago merely out of convention.