There
is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. It seems that the liberal
world touts and lauds knowledge as represented by formal degrees,
attendance at “superior” institutions of learning (i.e., Ivy League
schools, etc) and degrees. These things, while sometimes laudable,
hardly represent what is needed in our nation and especially in our
political leadership.
What
is needed is wisdom, that elusive thing that allows a person to put
knowledge into thoughtful and reasoned action. Wisdom is really a rare
thing and is acquired only through life experiences and the crucible of
trial and error. It is only in these things that wisdom is learned.
Someone who has existed in the hothouse of academia, sequestered from
reality of day-to-day life of a society and people, cannot acquire real
wisdom. Only through the doing, not the theory or imagining, can real
world wisdom be gained.
Thus
the respect in most societies for the elders, those that have “been
there, done that”, that have survived their mistakes, screw-ups and
failed theories. Only the dreamers, those that live theories, manifestos
and ivory tower ideations, are looked up to by a society that respects
only youth and the false narrative that such see the world clearly.
We
older folks often see “through a glass darkly”, usually because all
that we see in our youth driven and oriented society is the rejection of
wisdom for knowledge. All the advanced degrees in the world will not
give you the ability to actually apply that knowledge in a useful way.
Wisdom trumps all the “book learning” in the world. Having an MBA
without any actual experience is useless and dangerous in that to
idolize the degrees and “accomplishments” in academia while ignoring
wisdom will cause failure after failure with disastrous results.
Wisdom, acquired over time through experience and trial and error, is the only choice for our nation, so choose wisdom on November 6.
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