The more I see, the less I know,,,

With my thinking of late with the influx of civil and societal strive, I believe I see one of the underlying problems.

The wisdom of youth. Axiomatic because when you don’t know what you don’t know, your knowledge seems infinite.

Age proves the lie of that, wisdom is gained through experience and ‘getting burned’. You learn to not grab that hot handle, or those pretty blue bolts laying on the exhaust manifold. The more one learns, the more one realizes they have more to learn. Its one reason so many ‘oldsters’ sit silent while the young’uns run at the mouth. The older ones know that the best lessons are learned the hardest way.

Another aspect is in the success of our public education system. The schools have turned out exactly the product they were aiming for. And why the system has been so adamant against homeschooling. Proof positive is in what is going on now. I further saw proof of both issues during my recent conversation on history. One of the statements made by the other side was “I don’t need to know that, I have my opinions and beliefs”. To which I responded, “Opinion is fine if its based in facts. Are these opinions that, or are they what you’ve been taught? Are you a free man or a puppet being led?”

The use of ‘free man’ in the question started us off on the better path of discussion and things improved, instead of devolving into argument and anger. We ended agreeing that both sides are after one common goal, FREEDOM, not fear. The only dispute across the board is in “HOW”

Socialism is NOT the answer, I know this from experiance, historical and more recent precedent, and by educating myself (but I guess that falls under experiance)

The one common theme in all of our world is a problem in allowing sociopaths control of power. But how do you choose benevolent people to power. Thats where I break down because the question reacts like a snake and turns and bites you.

Who chooses? A select group? How are they chosen? Do you allow anyone and everyone a say? Or do you set criteria that needs reached first? If the last, who makes that decision?

There was a proposed Amendment during the drafting our Original Constitution. I don’t recall the number, but it did NOT make it to the final edition. It declared ‘titles’ as inappropriate for serving the country: lawyers would not be permitted to hold office. Hamilton fought this the hardest, as well as proposals against a federal banking system. He lost the bank fight, but won the lawyer one. Now, politics is flooded with lawyers and law degrees of various breeding. And that has been the running trend since Lincolns days.

Who decides?