The world is flooded with people full of ideas about how to make the world more just, equal, diverse, inclusive, loving, kind, and open. Everyone seems to be an expert on what would make the world a better place, on what needs to go, and what should be put in its place. These ideas are usually presented through veils of compassion with a heavy emphasis on progress, but they always lack the one ingredient that would make them credible and viable in my book.
Wisdom.
When I analyze the ideas being spouted, forced, coerced, harangued, and legislated into existence, I am struck by how little they contain in terms of common decency and good judgement. Critics of these ideas often defer to wisdom (and facts) when they raise concerns against these new ideas, but countering any idea about justice, equality, diversity, and all the rest of it with wisdom has proven fruitless because the idea pushers see wisdom as nothing more than an oppressive force impeding progress. For them wisdom is one of the pillars of the very structure they are endeavouring to destroy. Anyone who dares to draw on wisdom to counter their ideas is not only an archaic relic, but also a morally reprehensible oppressor who is incapable of learning new things.
Those who draw on widsom are, therefore, ____________ist, and are to be vitriolically attacked and vehemently dismissed the moment they dare to utter even the slightest or most mundane kernel of wisdom.
Unfortunately, reality has been unkind to societies that callously dismissed wisdom in the past. What makes us think it will be any kinder now?
Wisdom.
When I analyze the ideas being spouted, forced, coerced, harangued, and legislated into existence, I am struck by how little they contain in terms of common decency and good judgement. Critics of these ideas often defer to wisdom (and facts) when they raise concerns against these new ideas, but countering any idea about justice, equality, diversity, and all the rest of it with wisdom has proven fruitless because the idea pushers see wisdom as nothing more than an oppressive force impeding progress. For them wisdom is one of the pillars of the very structure they are endeavouring to destroy. Anyone who dares to draw on wisdom to counter their ideas is not only an archaic relic, but also a morally reprehensible oppressor who is incapable of learning new things.
Those who draw on widsom are, therefore, ____________ist, and are to be vitriolically attacked and vehemently dismissed the moment they dare to utter even the slightest or most mundane kernel of wisdom.
Unfortunately, reality has been unkind to societies that callously dismissed wisdom in the past. What makes us think it will be any kinder now?
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