On the See-Saw of Insanity

There is a cleverness that is stupid. It\'s the cleverness of the kind of person who knows the ways of business or politics and applies cleverness to the attainment of wealth and power at an individual level while the community (local to international) in which one must live is degraded irrepairably in consequence. 
 
There is a stupidity that is clever. It re-elects a president who is demonstrably unfit to lead in terms of a shocking level of dishonesty and chronyisn engaged in criminal war and the destruction of nations and life because, we are lead to believe, they were too stupid to see through the media complicit fraud. But it becomes astute enough to dump his anointed successor in punishment for stalling the consumerist orgy they have pursued and would happily continus to pursue to the destruction of a planet. 
 
Somewhere in between there is a true wisdom. A calm, enlightened wisdom that sees the greater vision of human destiny on a planet that could be preserved, even restored to its former glory, that seeks to restrain the excesses of destructive power and wealth and consumerism. It strives for order, justice, social institutions that dissipate conflict and promote the ways of living that give real fulfilment. 
 
What we need is a system that gives voice and power to this wisdom. Our attention should not be given to endless critique of clever stupidity or stupid cleverness, it should be given to organisation and focus on the goal of bringing power to this voice, to crippling stupid cleverness and allowing clever stupidit to dissolve into it\'s own ineffectual apathy. 
 
No-one needs to convince me any more that Bush is an idiot, that the American \"capitalist democracy\" is a corrupt dishonesty, no-one will ever convince me that the American people will ever awake and act to pursue a course of wisdom. But I am really ready to listen to real ideas for putting wisdom into power. 
 
I always thought the answer lay in \"True Democracy\" but the power of FOX News, the complicity of the not so deceived masses and the Bush Era have left me in serious doubt.

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