Mount Ida

In his ninth fragment, Heraclitus says: "Donkeys prefer straw to gold." Does the humanness in mankind then lie in the preference of the gold extracted to the mountain itself? Or is the blame on those who cannot relate to the true value of the mountain - those who cannot see how the contours of the mountain under the sky radiate its glow to people, and that the mountain and its surroundings can only come into view in this glow. "Mount Ida" continues to dwell in its radiant abode veiled by this blindness.