Compare the reflections on my experience with Buddhism circa page 103 to 107 of
Future of an Illusion: I quit that religion not because of the badness of its principles, its abstractions, its theories or even its rituals, but because of the badness of the people within it —I rejected Buddhists, as they really are, not Buddhism as it could be or should be. And again, I may add, looking back at the decades lost: "it" isn't worth it because "you" weren't worth it. The particular people weren't worth it. I can say the same even for something as mainstream as the study of Chinese, and as non-esoteric as political science, etc.
