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 ask 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.
Wisdom itself is a gift from God. It should be valued more than riches, for the bearer of it may avoid many pitfalls that could destroy him.
“Gift from God”??!
Get off the grass!!
People did ask about the price, and the response they got was that everything should be sacrificed if only to save one life. It was the running mantra of all the airhead leftist lunatics (and many conservatives as well). Pikuach nefesh is a serious matter, but few recognized how many lives would be sacrificed to “save one life”.
People were deliberately frightened by the government owned media.
The governments were frightened of making a decision that differed from their peers.
Their peers were frightened of the consequences of disobeying the orders issued by the World Health Organization.
The WHO was frightened of the dictators in the U.N. Agenda 21 sponsors.
And the U.N. sponsors are frightened of NOBODY, they are the globalist elites who donate their largely unearned wealth to saving the planet.
I spent enough years in premed biology where I knew the whole thing was a farce that would be exploit to the nth degree.. way bck in October of 2019. Their fer never got ner me. And I scrupulously ignored all the mandates and requirements and demands… and never got sicj from the wooflew. And happen to fall into TWO categories with supposedly very high risk of catching the covid. No matter.
I have to admit I WAS surprisedby two things:
How OUT OF CONTROL da gummmit got (I live in a very tyrannical state but was still surprised at how crazy they got. I also live in a part of that state that is rlatively chill and somehow with a really good sheriff. So my ignoring all the gummit poohbahs and their proclamations brought no ral downside. got kicked out of couple of businesses because of my lack of the mug nappie, but just did without or went elsewhere. I saw planey of goond looking mighty nervous when I was about, but with ne exception they stidiously ignired my illicit presence.
Funniest incideit: I was in the queue for the checkout at the ONLY grocers I patronise in my area, when one of the store workers came backwards through the line, seemed to make a beeline for me (could not read his cvered face…. yet) sidled up to me and announced “I’m supposed to tell you that you ar3 supposed tobe wearing a mask. Then he cracked a grin I ciuld discern from under that thing on his ,mug, said “I just id tell you”, shrugged his shoulders and walked off merrily. I had a good laugh over that one. After that he always gave me a big smile and wave.
“People did ask about the price, and the response they got was that everything should be sacrificed if only to save one life.”
Yup, and this was the “lifeboat” box canyon our political class and media placed us all into in which all the ants build a bridge of their own bodies across the water to save a few.
New Zealand locked the entire nation down and wrecked its economy due to the presence of literally a few cases of Covid that one could count on both hands.
No “science” in sight.
Sacrifice is evil and destructive of human life. Sacrifices are not necessary among rational people. Mutual self-interest, mutual help, does not entail sacrifice. Helping each other non-sacrificially IS possible.
“The idea behind mask-wearing and the so-called vaccine isn’t self-preservation. The idea is self-sacrifice, for the sake of your fellow man.
None of it makes sense, on its own terms. If self-preservation were the point of mask-wearing and experimental vaccines, then no self-sacrifice would be necessary. Nobody ever points this out. We wouldn’t need to be threatened, shamed, intimidated, censored or coerced into doing something if it were self-evidently in the interest of self-preservation to do it.” – Objectivist psychologist Michael J. Hurd
“My Mind, My Body, My Choice” – Michael J. Hurd
“The idea behind mask-wearing and the so-called vaccine isn’t self-preservation. The idea is self-sacrifice, for the sake of your fellow man.
having used the N95 mask when doing body and paint work (including lots of grinding, sanding, sandblasting, et) I KNEW they’d be worthless against a virus. I’e wear a fresh N95 whilst working maybe half an hour at a stretch (could not handle more than that i ine go) Taking the thing off I had athicklayer of sand, grit, powder, dust, on the part of my face UNDER th mask, thick sludge oozing out my nose and could feel the grit between my teeth. And that mask is supposed to stop a VIRUS that is about one millionth the size of that garbage that got in PAST the mask and into my nose, lungs, etc? SOMEONE is a genius of a salesman. So I KNEW those face dydies would be worse than useless against the wooflew.
“That is why so many political leaders, teachers, college presidents, doctors, epidemiologists and other scientists turned out to be fools.”
The political leaders were fools long before then. They were fools when they studied political science, they were fools when they hung on to the shirt tails of their mentors who are simply sycophants lusting for power..
I think there is more nuance to this..
Covid brought out all the little hitlers, or ‘progressive totalitarians screaming to get out’.
Many knew exactly what this was about and even if they didn’t, would say that it was great the planet was getting a ‘rest’ from pollution and that ‘things needed to change’’.
I live in London UK and I can assure you many knew the cost but saw covid as a chance to re structure how we live. Although there were many fools and sheep, there were many who saw this as the green/Marxist/fascist/rainbow pagan revolution they have been waiting for.
We were expected to all stand outside our houses each Thursday at 7pm to clap the NHS ‘state’.
I refused and my neighbours derided me for it.
Two things . . .
¹ When chickenshit AntiFa & BLM mobs roved around the streets to burn businesses down (many small & minority owned), they were the celebrated exception to the lock downs – proving that leftist politicians were either cowards, indulgent, or both.
² Leftist politicians love to abuse power. One example is weasel Jenkins shutting down Hoby Lobby. He wanted pay back for the owners bucking Obamacare.
Small business owners lost everything; not one government employee gave up a single paycheck (except President Trump). So when chickenshit politicians said “we’re all in this together ✊️”, they were full of shit. They knew the shutdown wouldn’t affect them – just us.
Wait and watch, who gets the “ROPE” I think it’s going to be a Great day, coming to a theater near you.
The difference between a moron and a stupid moron is as follows:
The moron is someone recognized as such.
The stupid moron is one who is recognized as a moron but thinks he’s smart.
The fate of mankind is in the hands of fools. The lesson of history is that we don’t learn from history.
That is SO true!
There are many lessons to be learned from history; all you need is the desire to want to learn from them so that you are not one of the fools that do not wish to learn anything! The problem, today, is that the fools are teaching our young not to learn, but to learn how to be fools like them just by going with the flow of indoctrination.
It’s not just ” what is the price” but Cui Bono.
Good point! The answer to Cui Bono? is obvious to any critical thinker…
Revelation 17:17
For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.
There is a reason all this is happening and it isn’t really due to leftists…it’s due to the state of the world and where it has to be at the times of the end. That lawlessness will increase and most people’s love will grow cold. That men will be lovers of self. So many end times character traits coming out in the open for all to see. We aren’t going to get anything back. We are in the birthing pangs portion. We haven’t seen anything yet because Jesus also told us that the worst time ever is coming..this isn’t anything, the worst is coming, watch out when the Jews can rebuild their temple!
you forget the identity of “the beast”. Nor are you aware of many of the things that actually happened to perfectly fulfil that and many other prophecies. There are many who proclaim thongs like “the ovid 19 vacconation IS the “mark of the beast” but if you take a few minutes and do a stody of the meaning if those greek words spoken by Jesus about that, you would know absolutely that it is absolutely impossible that that shot IS the “mark of the beast”. Go and learn (John tells us plainly in his writings) WHO that “beast” is/was.
Then go and read recorded details of “the state of the world” during that first century AD. Follow that history to see what happened during that time.
I never said the covid vaccine is the mark of the beast.
Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, “who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-4
The beast won’t be revealed until the abomination of desolation 3.5 years into the 7 year tribulation. For that to happen the Jews need to rebuild their temple.
What if devastating small businesses and “training” American People on totalitarian policies was a part of the plan?
Dennis, most if not all the shutdowners, leaned or were
progressives (commie light) whose mission in life is to
harm the country they hate. Until it is understood that
the left hates their country the good people will be
fighting a rear guard action.
Folks, please wake up as their motives are worn on
their sleeves as well as every time they open their
mouths.
I have pondered why no clear thinking psychiatrists
have ventured their learned opinions on this very
subject of why do leftists hate their country. Why
are not they on conservative radio and TV stations?
Why has not Tucker or Bongino or Hannity delved
into this area?
Because psychiatrists, like millions of healthcare professionals, are afraid of the repercussions for speaking the truth – getting cancelled, losing their license to practice medicine (look no further than CA), being shunned by their peers, or being labelled conspiracy theorists. They see damn well the effects of all this… Same goes for economists – the devastation on our economy and on small businesses will take decades to recover from (millions of small businesses will never recover), but they too dare not speak the obvious. Also, the long-term effects of this untested “vaccine” are yet to be known.
It seems wisdom has been forsaken in favor of the opinion of “experts”. There is no better example of this than our most recent appointment to SCOTUS saying she would have to defer to “experts” for a proper definition of “what is a woman?”. Here we have a supposedly well educated person succumbing to the “wisdom” of fools. These are the same fools, placed in positions of authority, whose nonsense has replaced the certainty of individual, critical thinking. I think this nominee should have been laughed out of the hearing room after having, obviously, handing over her brain to the Spirit of the Age. And we are supposed to hold people like this in high esteem?
What we ought to of asked was for them to PROVE that the risk of injecting an entire population with untested (there has not been time to do proper testing!) RADICALLY NEW technology would be better than treating the disease with known safe medications.
-why they refused to do any serous testing of cures & insisted that only a vaccine would work, in spite of the known long times necessary to insure a safe & effective vaccine is ready.
-why the politicians IGNORED the actual experts in the fields of immunology & virology who were recognized BY THEIR PEERS as because they had made valuable contributions to their fields, and INSTEAD they appointed THEIR choices of “experts” who agreed with the political agenda that ignored decades of science backed protocols for dealing with epidemics & public health measures.
-how they could possibly PROVE that this injection would be safe or effective when so little was known or studied about it or the virus it was intended to affect. We should have asked why the manufacturers of the injection only claimed that it would reduce the serious effects of the virus instead of claiming the SAME thing that the politicians claimed.
-how they could PROVE the vax did reduce the severity of the infection when it affected everyone differently. Some infected people did not notice any effects & others died. How can you gauge the effectiveness of the injection when you do not know how sever it would be without the injection?
-why we ought to allow politicians to be in charge of what medical treatment we are allowed instead of our physicians.
-why we are allowing politicians to use our governments to force scientifically unsupported theories to justify policies and actions that have disastrous effects on our people.
-why it is the SAME group of people that are asking us to follow policies that do not have any sound real science proof at all behind them,.and that will severely harm our nations, our economies & people.