Narcissism and the lust for power pay little attention to details of superstructure such as communism, democracy or religion. The greatest inhumanity, and the source of all evil, is not fear, greed or lust for power, but simply the denial of the humanity of another. Too much moderation is not good for you. Life is like a railway system - long delays are possible, sudden arrivals are not. As for eating meat and killing cockroaches, man cannot live on karma alone.
Life is too interesting to collect stamps.
Marxism is the opiate of the intellectuals. If there is no split between thinking and feeling then you have the animal level of existence, where mind and emotions always act completely in unison. The quest for consistency will inevitably lead to error. Old people are right, the world is going to the dogs, but it has been for thousands of years. A guru is not allowed to have opinions.