We are at a moment in time where we desperately need to accelerate wisdom.
— Elise Loehnen
With so many things so out of control—inflation, the virus, domestic terror, foreign enemies, and global warming—we are perfectly poised to elect a strongman as president in two years.
That's what fear-filled idiots do.
We need wisdom to steer us, but wisdom's in short supply right now (like a lot of things).
Amazon won't deliver it overnight.
Then again, maybe it will.
Emerson said, "If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
We should make that the first, perhaps the only, question we ask of a candidate.
Books may not be the only source of wisdom (there's the "school of hard knocks," too); but they're a primary source—and a ready one.
Ezra Pound said a book is a "ball of light in one's hands."
Hurry, wisdom.
