This is especially true in a democracy with its plurality of opinion and relativity of that which is perceived as truth. Add to that the appalling decline in the quality of education in America in the last half century and you have the makings of our present chaos. Where there is action it is either superfluous and superficial or directed in ill conceived and opposite directions leading to ridicule, gridlock, and complacency. Politicians intentionally confuse education with training and insist we need to improve it. A broadbased liberal education in the traditional sense is largely unavailable in America and for good reason.
Thinkers make wise decisions at the polls.
Voltaire, who is more often quoted than read, a satirist par excellence, a sayer of things left unsaid, a blasphemer of the sacrosanct, an examiner and chronicler of the paradoxical, a clastor of icons, is a Buddycom idol and possibly a pagan one at that. Some believe Voltaire was a philosopher. He was not. He was a satirist. Righteous peccatophobes have suggested the latter.