suppose you gain the whole Earth

but lose your soul while doing it? Pryrrhus king of Epirus defeated the Romans in 279BC but at great cost to his army. Jesus told the crowds "What does it profit a man should he gain his life but lose his soul?" Cathy told Nellie in Wuthering Heights "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff. I only know that whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same" and she went off to marry Linton and live unhappily.
What is becoming of us in the West as we become more insensitive to others and personally and culturally more stupid? We are losing the identitiy of what it once meant to be human and our enemies are laughing at us as we go scurrying around looking for boogie men.
Boogie men disappear as soon as one steps into the light oneself because one is no longer in the dark and so one's fear goes. So we lose our soul, we become stupid, we bomb ourselves with Fox news bigotry because they reinforce our fears. You blind fools. Like Dr Faustus you gratify your fears and prejudices and you lose your good sense.