When do you know you're wise? If you are, you never do. Only if you're dumb you can think highly of yourself. When have we lost this notion? Why is there so little respect towards nature and its secrets? Why are we so arrogant? Why do we lack humility?
It seems that one can buy anything nowadays if they got means for it. Respect, education, social position, power and beauty. But all these are so skin deep, so superficial. To dream big is to dream of having a lot. He who has the money is the idol, the golden calf. It's so ironic and sad, but we, as the Western culture, have lost almost all of our sacrum, all that is crucial for our identity. We are careless - with love, with family, with knowledge, with our time. It's hard for us to teach our children what's right and wrong. Because we ourselves don't know. All we can do is copy each other, in hope that our degrating sociaties can give us the right direction. The road. So we finish school, get a job, earn and spend money. Have children, travel, have good and bad times. We read blogs and books and newspapers and some of us think of ourselves as intelligent, knowledgeable. But are we? Are we really? If your smart you are aware that the more you experience the world, the bigger the scope of the mysterious. But smart means active, critical, independent, curious. These features of character were what drove our culture for centuries. Only to come to drastic decline. And be replaced by following the herd, oblivion, lack of interest and mediocrity.
What a shame - that generally in the Western Societies we are not wise. And that we feel no shame.
