PIED PIPERS Scratch the Ears - Prophets Feed the Soul

What is a PIED PIPER?  The term has been used in many contexts - it is a notation which is ascribed to many different kinds of individuals, but in the end is a term which is most well represented as a term to convey the insulary nature of any character who presumes that they are an authority and that takes up a mantle which is not theirs to bear.  And yet - such individuals serve a purpose - and those who have ears to hear will recognize that many who hate that which cuts to the quick love to hear the greatest they think there is speak that which agrees with themselves, but is such what brings forth the sweetness from the sour, and grace from the bowels of hell?  That which conceals is a blessing, for is it not Nature's prerogative to enable its creatures with methods of deception in order to ingratiate themselves into an environment hostile to their well being?  And yet, it is also the glory of Kings to search out a matter, just as it is the glory of God to conceal a matter... 

- Proverbs 25:2

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A Tragic Termination to Knowledge.—Of all the means of exaltation, human sacrifices have at times done most to elevate man. And perhaps the one powerful thought—the idea of self-sacrificing humanity—might be made to prevail over every other aspiration, and thus to prove the victor over even the most victorious. But to whom should the sacrifice be made? We may already swear that, if ever the constellation of such an idea appeared on the horizon, the knowledge of truth would remain the single but enormous object with which a sacrifice of such a nature would be commensurate—because no sacrifice is too great for it. In the meantime the problem has never been expounded as to how far humanity, considered as a whole, could take steps to encourage the advancement of knowledge; and even less as to what thirst for knowledge could impel humanity to the point of sacrificing itself with the light of an anticipated wisdom in its eyes. When, perhaps, with a view to the advancement of knowledge, we are able to enter into communication with the inhabitants of other stars, and when, during thousands of years, wisdom will have been carried from star to star, the enthusiasm of knowledge may rise to such a dizzy height!

- Dawn of Day, Nietzsche