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If wisdom of men and women in life and death, joy and suffering, society, experience history, war and peace,… is rare…what have most people in place of wisdom?

“Democracy” assumes that those stupid and proud are less than 50% of a population.

Fox News, where if anything is anti-Democrat…that’s true enough.

But many of its viewers think that Democrats are leftists, and leftists are socialists, and socialist are communists, and communists of satanic… and such people are hopeless.

Perhaps if he had been murdered, martyred, closer to the center of Rome? (At least there would be more tourists.)

It seems to be the unconscious psychic maternal and familial upbringing of a child that is the most determining. — One aspect of years of observation in Russia(n).

Politicians

After decades of experience, observations, and reflections, John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson that those only who rule should be “sad”, ie buffeted by life, wise by suffering and experience.

No matter what claims are made as if from some “moral high ground”, often in politics and society – and this worldwide – acts and deeds are as if there is no abyss.

Directions to profession,… manners and etiquette in society,…general morality in relationships… yet a general wisdom of life, experience, growth, maturing, insights to life… “wisdom” is so little offered… it can take decades to wring from life, world and experience.

Beyond the established traditions of answers, be they religious, philosophical, scientific, academicals, even existential and atheistic, to come to a lived actual relation to the question of the Meaning, or not, of Existence, Being…

Fear is the greatest sociopolitical force.