The human capacity for wisdom is great. It is the lies we tell ourselves which hobble minds and distort the significance of any thing abstracted beyond the account of one’s direct senses.
There are a whole heap of lies. One for instance is your frequent use of the word “we.”
Can you do those things?
No.
Someone can. Not you. That you may confer your own confidence through such a figment of an association is striking.
Consider that civilization dies and is reborn and must recreate itself every so many generations. We now have much records, only what lives of civilization is that embodied by those taking upon themselves its reinvention.
Wisdom is not some far off future technology, it is the determination not to be a damned idiot fool at every intersection of consequence. When you think feel or believe you are not capable of being the damned idiot fool, you are too corrupt and full of treacherous lies to be wise enough for anything.
The fragment of civilization represented by you is only that which you have cultivated (embodied or actualized) of those representations.
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