re: #18 Bob Levin

This is your topic, not mine. I’d probably take another approach to the problem. I think the key has to do with wisdom, and this is not a concept that is given value in our society. In the meantime, we must muddle through.

If you say this or that society works, I would attribute it to individuals who possess wisdom. If you point to a society that is not working, I would say that certain powerful people in that society lack wisdom.

The next step in the conversation would be for us to try and define wisdom, but that will take more than two weeks, and is more trouble than it’s worth, time one could better spend on trying to increase one’s own wisdom.

Or we could post some articles about Asian Philosophy.

I am sorry, that sounds to me like Romney’s line that universal mandated health insurance works fine for Mass but hell no for those idiots in Alabama. They can’t handle universal health care in Alabama like sophisticated New Englanders can………