Welcome to the club. There really isn't any turning back once you've freed your mind.

Axioms:

• Ignorance is bliss.
• Being good feels good.
• Without commitment to transcendental ideas, humans are nothing more than clever monkeys.

Thus:

A society or culture, once becoming decoupled from its transcendental core, be that core religious, nationalistic, or ideological, tends towards embracing hedonism, reasoning that acts which feel good must therefore be good.

Conclusion:

• Without being hemmed in by a suitable idea, societies will inevitably come to encourage ignorance.

Now this is the part where we all remember that we live in a society.

Scary stuff.