To gain wisdom you must gain knowledge AND effectively apply that knowledge. Common sense is a derivative of wisdom. We’ve all heard it: “common sense” is no longer common. That’s true, because society as a whole lacks wisdom. Car manuals used to tell you about changing fluids and rotating tires; now those same manuals tell you not to drink battery acid. Yeah, our society lacks wisdom and common sense.
People don’t hate capitalism. They hate corporatism but lack the education allowing them to distinguish between the two and lack the communication skills to discuss their concerns.
Put on a movie and the sheep can spot the resistance and the fascists, yet in real life the sheep can’t find their way out of the barn. Weird? Yes, but you have to know they’ve been conditioned to love the wolves and hate the shepherds. Sheep are willing to lose some freedom (free to roam) to gain what they think is safety (limited inside the barn).
While MAGA champions free speech and freedom, the sheep call us fascists. They’ve been conditioned. As damaging as evil people can be, sometime the ignorant bleaters are more detrimental. The wolves know the games. MAGA knows the games. The sheep are content to chew whatever’s in the bag of oat-like substance so long as they get to blindly ignore they’re being fattened for slaughter in the death barn…and there’s another flock right behind them about to graduate.
Are you raising sheep or lions? Gullible or free thinkers?
I’ve got friends who still think Zelenskyy is this oppressed guy. I can’t tell them otherwise. Facts make their brains explode. They can’t process and don’t want to because they’d have to admit their system, their safe barn, lied to them. It’d shatter their world, so - in fear and hopeful ignorance - they keep bleating hoping for unity and better party politics.