We humans are proud of our inventions. Tools, weapons, cities, philosophies. But if we’re being honest—our real masterpiece is this:

We ruin everything.

We ruin land, animals, each other. We ruin justice, we ruin love. But our favorite thing to ruin?

Ideas.

Take this one: Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Freedom, equality, brotherhood. Sounds bulletproof, doesn’t it? Like something no monster could twist.

Until we did.

The year was 1790. The dream? Do what you want as long as it doesn’t hurt others. Equality before the law. Mutual respect. All fine. Noble, even.

Then the knives came out.

Then the guillotine.

Then the “people’s” courts, mass executions, looting in the name of the poor, corruption dressed up as justice.

And voilà—another beautiful idea mangled beyond recognition.

But here’s the real horror: it worked.

A few of the original goals were achieved—or at least declared achieved—and the blood? The chaos? Just "necessary steps on the path to progress."

This wasn’t a one-time accident. It was a prototype.

Ever since then, tyrants and cowards have learned the trick: wrap yourself in a good idea, do awful things behind it, and call it salvation.

That trick got its license during the French Revolution. That’s when degradation stopped being a crime—and became a method. A process. A tradition.

And we’ve been franchising it ever since. Across countries, companies, campuses. Different slogans. Same scam.

So tell me…

What exactly is this path we’re on? Maybe

Disappearance. Just like the Neanderthals.