The gullible still reside among us and for that I am saddened. What I can surmise from that is people place their trust in persons who have attained power without realizing just how nefarious many people are who attain power. Power is gained through not only honest brokering but most times with ulterior motive and under handed practices. Trusting someone who has wealth or power to be a guide for oneself takes a lot of naivete and abdication of one's will. I can admire people for their accomplishments if those accomplishments exhibit the better and best of who we are as a civilized and enlightened species, but I will never give tribute to one's who owe their success to the sapping of resource from others. The "dog eat dog" mindset of many is illustrative of what I find reprehensible as an outcome. I don't mind competition when most are equally matched but to give credence or respect to those who practice the artful dodgery of unfairness and manipulation is wrong, when disrespect and condemnation should be their reward. We see this in our economies and our political systems as examples. Those who would be leaders are more takers than honest representatives of those who need them most. We have to give our attentions to what is being done in our name and for that we must know what is happening. The only way for that to happen is to elevate our understandings, not by short cutting knowledge by mimicking others but through analyzing and reasoning out the issues of the day that most interest us. We don't need to know it all but we do need to know some things and then the knowing of them will open our eyes to those leaders who have our intent as theirs.
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