Intellectual Humility Is as Out of Fashion as Bell-Bottom Jeans

The quote at left has been attributed to many of the world’s wisest people.  Certainly the concept of Socratic Wisdom, i.e., “if I’m wise in any sense it’s because I know nothing,” goes back 2300+ years.  This from ThoughtCo.com: Socratic wisdom is a sort of humility: it simply means being aware of how little one really knows; how uncertain one’s beliefs are; and how likely it is that many of them may turn out to be mistaken.

In any case, modern-day America has taken the ideas of the “fools and fanatics” and catapulted them to new heights of importance.  Anti-vaxxers and climate deniers couldn’t have existed, outside of an infinitesimal fringe, until just a few years ago.