Posted on 11/30/2022 8:05:18 AM PST by Heartlander
What would you think of a person who never asked the price of anything he or she bought?
You would assume the person was inordinately wealthy. But if the person wasn’t, you would dismiss him as a fool, and you would certainly never ask this person for advice about how to spend your money.
Yet, for two years, that question—”What is the price?”—was avoided by virtually every political leader in the world as well as the vast majority of epidemiologists and physicians, journalists and editors, college presidents, deans, professors, and K-12 teachers.
They never asked, “What is the price?” with regard to locking down businesses, schools, and, in many cases, entire countries.
That is why so many political leaders, teachers, college presidents, doctors, epidemiologists, and other scientists turned out to be fools.
The handful of scientists—and, of course, the even smaller number of academics or people in the mainstream media—who questioned the lockdowns were labeled purveyors of “misinformation” and “disinformation,” the terms used by the Left to describe all dissent. Indeed, as of January 2023, California physicians who differ from the fools who dominate the American medical establishment will risk having their license to practice medicine revoked.
The only country in which leading epidemiologists and political leaders asked what price their country, especially their young people, would pay under a lockdown was Sweden. Otherwise, virtually no leaders—in science, media, academia, or politics—asked the most important question: What is the price?
As a result, economies were devastated, millions of people who owned small businesses had their financial lives ruined, and young people suffered on every level. Fools, led by universities—Harvard shut down in early March 2020, when there were 51 confirmed cases COVID-19 in the entire state of Massachusetts—and followed by virtually every teachers’ union, ruined countless young Americans’ lives. For nearly two years, young Americans were deprived of an education, deprived of interaction with peers, and masked everywhere they went outside of their homes. One result is that young Americans now have the highest rate of mental and psychological problems recorded in the country’s history, have the highest rates of depression and suicide and are academically at the lowest level for their age ever recorded.
This happened because teachers’ unions are led by fools and because virtually every public health authority is a fool. And because the overwhelming majority of American parents put their faith in fools—and thereby injured their own children.
Fools led sheep. Parents were sheep; airline heads who went along with the abusive policy of forcing 2-year-olds to wear masks for hours on end were sheep; even the vast majority of priests, ministers, and rabbis were sheep.
We are therefore faced with two big questions:
First, why are most leaders and experts fools?
Second, why do most people put their faith in fools?
The answers are related.
Most experts know a lot about one thing: their narrow area of expertise. They know as much about other areas of life as non-experts. But they think they know a lot. Yet, because experts were never taught to ask, “What is the price?” anyone who asks that question is likely to give better advice than almost any expert.
The fact that experts don’t ask the question goes to the heart of the crisis of our time: there is no wisdom-education. At school—from first grade to doctoral programs—wisdom is never taught. Therefore, the people who run our educational institutions are fools, and fools cannot teach the opposite of foolishness: wisdom.
For nearly a century, Americans—and most others in the Western world—have been told that knowledge is all one needs to make important decisions. Therefore, people assume that experts—i.e., those with a great deal of knowledge in one field—give good advice, design helpful policies and should therefore be followed unquestioningly.
Whenever I spoke out against lockdowns—as early as April 2020 (you can look it up), I called the worldwide lockdowns the greatest international mistake in history—respondents on the internet and callers to my radio show said my viewpoint could not possibly have merit because I am not a health expert.
Yet, even when I cited physicians or had physicians on my radio show who agreed with me, the usual response was either that they represented a minority viewpoint (as if that automatically invalidates a science-based point of view) or that they weren’t really experts because they weren’t epidemiologists!
Given that expertise is venerated and equated with wisdom, people have ceased thinking. Since they are not experts, thinking is deemed pointless. Obedience is all that’s called for. So, even as parents watched their children—the people they most cherish—get depressed, begin using drugs, detach from human intercourse and regress academically, they never considered questioning, let alone disobeying, the experts.
If wisdom had been taught in schools and at home, Americans would have asked, “What is the price?” or, if you prefer, “What is the downside?” Yet schools do not teach this, and most parents, themselves the products of a wisdom-free education, also do not.
The abandonment of the question, “What is the price?” has led to terrible consequences in every area of life.
Few young Americans ask, “What is the price?” for delaying marriage or for not marrying at all, or for not having children, or for participating in the “hook-up” culture, just to cite a few examples of self-destructive decisions tens of millions of young Americans have made.
Few people of any age ask, “What is the price” of rapidly shifting to wind and solar energy? Then they are shocked at the price of gasoline and, for that matter, everything else, since everything is dependent on cheap energy. They have been indoctrinated into believing that the only price worth considering is the global warming price of using fossil fuels. The experts keep telling them that. Yet, that price is either model-based or far in the future—in either case, a function of foolish experts—while the price of abandoning fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) and nuclear power is immediate and catastrophic.
Yet, no matter how much damage obedience to experts has wrought, most people continue to obey fools—because they were taught to assume that there is a linkage between expertise and wisdom.
The reality is there is none.
I call it Assumed Competence/Excellence.
People who are competent/excellent in one are are assumed to be competent/excellent in other areas.
This is also when a person who is competent/excellent in one area assumes that they are competent/excellent in other areas.
Competence/excellence in an area must be proven, not assumed.
—great articled—
What's in this "vaccine" you're injecting into my arm?
What studies have been conducted to prove that the "vaccine" you're injecting into my arm is "safe" and "effective"?
Why do I need to be "vaccinated" against my will, for a "disease" which poses no greater threat to me or anyone else, than the flu or common cold?
By what authority can the government "lock down" the entire country?
By what authority does the government have the right to decide what businesses and other entities are "essential", and how do liquor and marijuana stores fall into that category while churches do not?
Just a few of the questions fools don't ask.
It’s a good article, but I strongly disagree with his assertion that these people are “fools”, NEVER pretend True Evil is just acting foolish, they all knew exactly what they were doing and why. EVIL.
They saw an opening and they took it. Unlike the Arizona Cardinals' offence.
It is, although I would have used the word Cost instead of Price. Both mean the same, but cost infers a negative result
What on earth makes Dennis think the price has not been considered?
Just what are electrolytes? And why do plants need them?
XD
Totally agree.
The answer is Civilization.
They never let a crisis go to waste, especially if the went to all that trouble to create it in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Memorial
The abandonment of the question, "What is the price?" has led to terrible consequences in every area of life.
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
"Number the Stars" (all kinds of talk)
The ones on that wall for example... 4048 = the sum of these two verses together:
Daniel 524 Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written.
25 And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
A view from the WAMO of the two men in white:
The astronaut's view, because the Washington Monument was the scene of Apollo 50: Go for the Moon, when it became the Saturn V, Apollo 11. "Relive the Show"
Lift off, July 16th, 1969/2019 (197th "Immanuel" [עמנואל] day of the year) and a What is the price? question on the memorial Talk page:
Costs?
The article states that a "total of $197 million was raised." Assuming that US-$ are meant, where did the money end up?
Fitting that the main page informs that Dole was memorialized there:
The U.S. federal government provided about $16 million; a total of $197 million was raised. Following his death in December 2021, Dole himself would have a memorial service held at the World War II Memorial.
And if anyone is interested in adding this all up:
The twin bronze wreathes decorating the 56 granite pillars around the perimeter of the memorial — as well as the 4,048 gold-plated silver stars representing American military deaths in the war — were cast at Valley Bronze in Joseph, Oregon.
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Imagine what I must necessarily leave out for the sake of brevity, some kind of big family reunion. All orchestrated. These things take time.
Joseph OR, OR literally being "area code" 541 [ישראל]. The foundry's over at Rikva's address (307 רבקה) on Alder [אלדר] street.
The pool is a cartouche:
A cartouche contains a royal name. This one was minted at West Point.
Game 123 is on the 10th in the city of brotherly love at Lincoln Financial Field. Everyone's going to learn to get along! Forged by the See.
Yet, no matter how much damage obedience to experts has wrought, most people continue to obey fools—because they were taught to assume that there is a linkage between expertise and wisdom.
So many alders!
Exodus 3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
Not all fools are bad. In fact, fools rush in where wise men never go, but wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?
If anyone could arrange MOAR (the Mother Of All Reunions) of Jacob and Esau, it was Joseph. All in the timing. Analog time. Or freak-out time as it were. Unexpected.
It's like how people keep waiting for the Messiah for the light, the illumination, the revelation of all knowledge. The man, the mission, the national personification who will light the way!
Then he walks into the room and does what, flicks on the light switch. Ouch. Thousands of years but no one else thought to do it already. Couldn't see it in the dark so they all just sat there. Ingenious! Way to Go! Generational dole and disability for the Win! /s (That's downright un-American.)
Better late than never. It's time to sit down.
Fascinating:
I wouldn’t call them fools. They know the price of their actions and celebrate the deadly consequence. Evil is the word you’re looking for.
Who’s the fool here?
Like most progressives, they don’t consider the law of scarcity. With their inflated egos, they imagine themselves as gods or demi-gods who possess unlimited resources and the ability to overcome any obstacles. It is part of their utopian mindset where they can overcome reality. They live in an illusory world, the product of their own imagination. No common sense at all.
Question Authority.
I question authority and even talk to God about it….it seems to work for me…even when I question His authority….lol.
He will set you straight.
Fools will do the bidding of their father…Satan.
Well, while we’re on the topic of fools, imagine your over your head in debt, and you go borrow money to give to your neighbor free and clear. That’s what we do with every cent of foreign aid.
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