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.
Here’s a sad truth.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of U.S. citizens agree with this statement.
Plato wrote this, the longer form of which is “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly. While bad people will find a way around the laws.” 
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Economist Robert Reich says, “Clarence Thomas should not be allowed to rule on Trump cases after his wife was directly involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Recusal should be the absolute minimum. Your thoughts?”
There is no reason that the statement here can’t be true.
The story here from 
In their final meeting, the January 6th committee decided to recommend that the Justice Department take over and bring criminal charges against Trump.
The tale at left is a reminder that we live in a world where kindness is “trending,” to use the popular term. This became apparent, to me at least, with the imperative to commit “random acts of kindness” concept of perhaps 20 years ago.
If you can relate to the meme here, and you’re willing to “surrender to the mystery,” you’ll love the composition of American singer-songwriter Iris Dement, below.
