🤩 Virtue

For each thing, as Aristotle suggests, there is an excellence, and those with greater excellence can see the limitations of those below them—limitations the less excellent cannot perceive in themselves or others. This creates a one-way opacity: the higher can see the lower, but not the reverse. The gods, being supremely excellent, see our mistakes before we make them, like an audience watching a play unfold. They might cry out warnings—Don’t do that, you idiots, can’t you see what will happen?—but we, immersed in the drama of our lives, continue on, oblivious.