Of what exactly am I so confident that I could deny it 4 times. Well, interestingly enough, at least to me, is the rather startling situation in which I find myself. There is very little anymore under this sun that I am positive about, 100% confident in my confidence that I know of what I speak. That I know of what I say I know. And that I know what I do not know. However, the question then arises: how the heck do I know what I don't know if I don't know and what do I do about this blank space in a continuum of knowledge possessed and, in enough confidence, to voice an opinion about it? The answer is - I do not know.
Unfortunately, this situation is ever more prevalent these days. Books of Knowledge if printed today would be multiplied in number of volumes, in pages of content, and forever in editing for corrections and adjustments. So quickly are we accumulating knowledge, so much of which we had no inkling of any possible existence, that we remain clueless about it, until suddenly it was here before our very eyes and our strained and stretched minds.
Perhaps we had already decided that we knew everything we needed to know about any topic under the sun and then closed up shop as to curiosity and storability. There is so much more these days about which we do not know about, which we cannot absolutely drive through to a relevant and confident opinion and conclusion. However, we sure as shootin' don't have any problem about voicing our authoritative statement for all to accept. An opinion of end of discussion certainty. When challenged by others possessing more relevant and up to to date information possibly leading to a conclusion oppositional to ours, we G-d forbid cede the point. More commonly, we generally become quite indignant and proceed full speed ahead sans thought, determined to prove ourselves right. Thus, we achieve the rather dubious distinction of claiming the title of Luddite as we present our ignorance to the world at large.
The problem here is that we have become arrogant in our ignorance. We are so sure we are sure about that we which we do not know, in fact, we do not actually know what we do not know. Furthermore, if we do not know what it is that we do not know, if we have never heard of it before, then how in fact are we to address that rather gaping chasm and backup at our intake valve. If we have not delved into the matter at hand, then why do we insist oh so positively that we know that of which we actually know nothing at all or the very minimum, certainly not enough to generate a well-informed opinion and conclusion. .
The righteous answer is to admit ignorance and/or insufficient info and/or experience and determine to make an effort to better inform yourself of that which you are so abysmally lacking at this point.
Is it even possible today for one brain to keep safely intact within those limited gray cells all that we need to know in a swiftly changing world? What is more, what is one to do when a trusted source of advanced knowledge also runs into a brick wall difficult, perhaps impossible, to surmount or detour round it? Do we then throw our hands up in the air? Turn away upset at being challenged, ashamed that we know not but insist that we do?
The best effort is to better inform yourself of that which you are so abysmally lacking at this point. The absolute worst is to ignore it all within yourself and within those whom you have championed, looked upon as a role model and source of information. You must find another pathway to certainty.
Openly and honestly speaking, you must acknowledge that most of us do not do that. We shake our heads, throw our hands up in resignation and go ahead. We say we are tired of it all. And say I can't do anything about it so I won't. But my friends that is so the wrong way to choose There is a path leading only to further ignorance, further falling behind, until there is no which way we can catch up. We drag along with us 8 balls of ignorance which cannot be cut loose. Furthermore, to our shame, unacknowledged ignorance and our persistence in remaining in the ignoramus club as we refuse to admit that we have gone wrong somewhere along the line and must fix it before it is too late.
Here is one example, and I will leave it at that. For years, people have been saying that Joe Biden had a form of dementia. Perhaps at his age it would not be unusual. Certainly I admit that my brain at today's age is not the same as it was when I was 30 or 40 or 50 or even 60. Neither is yours or most people. It is a natural path of occurrence. However, when one of t whose dementia is obvious, so blatant, as are the reactions and the behavior and demeanor of a Donald Trump, then we too, are engaging in creating false basis of drawing conclusions. When a man sputters and stutters, not because he cannot pronounce or twist his tongue around the letter. It is that he does not know the facts. Then we have trouble right here in River City. Immediate.
Ever increasing in occurrence, every day, is the ignorance of Donald Trump who perhaps never listened to the teacher in school or, more likely, or perhaps both, he is undergoing and has been undergoing for quite some time a serious onset and development of dementia. That diagnosis is an explanation of his behavior, his statements, his lack of statements, his evident ignorance, particularly of history and his inability to cancel outhis mouth or his mind. Here is one of the most recent, and then you, please go delve into this situation.
In response to a question from a reporter late Tuesday afternoon about Russian military buildup along the NATO borders of Finland and Norway, President Trump replied, "No. I don't worry about that at all. It'll be very safe. Those are two countries, you're gonna be very safe."
Say what?
Trump directed everyone to look at the portraits around his desk. He named the first two Presidents no problem, but then began to stutter when he got to Monroe.
"That's Monroe from the ... uh ... Monroe docu... document," Trump finally said. Unlike Joe Biden, who always had a stutter, the sudden inability to recall elementary school facts about the Monroe Doctrine has sparked new fears of his mental state online."
Guess I am not the only one troubled about this.
Where the hell are the rest of you?
This is your country and mine. This is a country that is supposed to set the pace to and for the world and what would that pace be at present? Whether we look at the yesterdays, the todays, or evaluate the quality of tomorrows, time to wake up. Time, way past time, to inform ourselves, yourselves, of the truth of the peril awaiting. If we do not see and act, if we claim we do not hear the ticking of the hands on that Midnight Clock, the Doomsday Clock, for sure we have ceded control of the lunatic asylum, otherwise known as the modern world, for sure, to the inmates and negated the sane.
I hope not. Do I know not?
Nope. Sorry. Cannot. For sure.
What I do know for sure is that demented Presidents appoint ignorant perhaps equally mentally challenged officers of the government - yours and mine -who vow that
"Habeas Corpus Is A Constitutional Right That The President Has"
Uh, that would be a Constitutional Right of and for All Americans. No Executive Order on this one. Tsk, tsk, Kristi Noem, our Homeland Security Secretary. Oy!!
Start Worrying. Now. For sure.
Double down on that OY!! For sure.
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