I try to gain wisdom over smart as I age in place.  I always thought wisdom was less in supply than smart.  We have many smart people who just aren’t wise.  We have individuals with numerous degrees or credentials.  They became well educated in specific areas but they never became wise.  Maybe that is why we see the outpouring of stupidity we see today.

I recently read an article from the Wall St. Journal  regarding  the Golden Age of Stupidity, (written by Lance Morrow, August 30, 2021) that nails the idea of our glorious state of stupidity.  We don’t have to look far to see numerous examples of it.  A large most recent example is the withdrawal from Afghanistan.  An older version was the long deadly war in Vietnam.  Another modern day stupidity is the refusal of millions of people to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.  It makes one …