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Cultures, underpinned by their sacred objects are fundamentally held up by the power of faith in the ultimately meaningless. Out of this meaningless mass comes meaningless pride.

Cultures make it possible to be proud of something. Pride is perhaps the ultimate sin, it misses the mark and prescribes meaning to the meaningless. But pride is the only thing that keeps life going. That's why we'll die for our honor.

If you're unwilling to die you gain great power and immortality like a vampire. The price is no longer feeling warmth or fullness ever again.

Enlightenment is the ability to draw energy from the sacredness of existence/consciousness itself rather than another ideology. However, you can't draw power from the void. What you *can* do however is draw energy from *any* sacred idea or object.

If you reach this realization halfway you'll waste a lot of time trying to make fire by rubbing two icicles together. However cognitive understanding of being able to switch energy sources doesn't mean ability to do so. It's still a lot of hard work.

It's like learning a new language, or mastering a difficult instrument. Your mother culture is gifted to you for free, but to rebuild your world using another culture is much harder. Your old energy source may be dying, but you still have to put in the work to use the new one

Note here. For something like "musician culture" you can master the piano technically but still not have rebuilt your world through new eyes. Rote memorization plus lack of ability to be creative is indicative of this pure focus on technicality rather than cultural change.

Because of how technology affects cultures our power sources are in flux. I suspect there are precisely zero guru millennials now because it just isn't possible. It's like looking for someone with 5 years of work experience with a 2 year old technology.