The story of Tiresias in hell
Tiresias lived for seven generations, and because he was unable to change the fate of mankind with his wisdom, as was his destiny, his soul continued to burn in hell. Tiresias was upset by God’s judgment. Had he not done everything possible to save humanity from its self-destruction, its barbarity, its foolishness? Had he not done his part? How was he responsible for the stupidity of his contemporaries? And he concluded that the contract was corrupted, because one could not save the world alone, especially if this world was essentially composed of big, fat, pretentious idiots.
It is said that, in spite of everything, Tiresias lived with his fate, and continued to lavish his truths and his advice, in particular to the great ones of this world who had the power to travel to hell and back. This was the case of Oedipus, but it is said that Napoleon I’s Civil Code was inspired by Tiresias.
The truth of myths depends on the time in which they are read, and the truth today is that Tiresias was not at all satisfied with the conditions of life in Hell. He grumbled so loudly that God Himself was annoyed. One night when He had gone a little overboard on the whiskey, He decided to go downstairs to talk to the grumbler.
And God said, "Tiresias, you tire me with your arrogance, and it is not good to tire your God. Look at the hell in which you live, don't you recognize it? It is not mine, but yours, the one that you and your kind have created in fourteen generations. I have done nothing since the Creation. I have worked six days and it is more than enough for Me. For thirteen billion years, for Me, everyday is Sunday. I gave you Paradise, your planet is the only Paradise that exists, it is mankind who has made it a hell. So don't go complaining to Me, I am the One Creator, you are the One in Charge."
God took a sip of Lagavulin, then He added, "You are the champions. The champions for looking down on others. The champions for despising everything you don't understand. The champions for seeing the mote in the other's eye and not the beam that blinds you. Athena showed you the way: to gouge out the eye of your concupiscence to open your eyes on yourself. It is you who interpreted her order to advise others, and I understand it. Men like to ask for advice but not to follow it, since they look down on the wise man. Athena has only shown you the way. What she asked you to do was to put out the eyes of all humans. All of them. You have failed, so what ? What do you want Me to say? I am the One, the Unknowable, and man, failure, hope, the slaughter of the innocent, happiness, chance, courage and suicide are all part of it. I tell you: let every man put out his eyes, let every man be blind on earth and finally begin to see, and you will live."