Election Day Wisdom: What To Do If Voters Do Something Stupid

Actually, it's any day wisdom that applies to any situation when one must deal with stupid people who demonstrate the need to illustrate their stupidity. Election day, more than most days, has the potential to make me want to scream, "How can people be so stupid and still breathe?" Almost of all of those people who will challenge what little Christian charity I possess will be online today.

The wisdom necessary to deal with stupid people can be expressed humorously with a little irony as shown in this classic:

Duty Calls

This expression makes the same point.

Borrowed From Flights of (Almost) Fancy

Of course one can always turn to sacred wisdom:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: [James 1:19]

 Stay calm; go vote.

Stuff I Wish I Had Written: Wisdom And Education Edition

From this John Spencer post,

Schools are designed for the acquisition of knowledge. Occasionally we move from measurable knowledge to immeasurable knowledge. However, when I think of what's missing, it often fits into the general sense of wisdom: a recognition of mortality, a deeper questioning of existence and identity, philosophical conversation, an expansion of one's worldview, ethical thinking, a chance to serve the community, a better understanding of relationships, opportunities to experience the world rather than simply read about it.

Sometimes it's as simple as an analog clock. Other times it's a mural or a garden or a hard conversation about death when one of your schoolmates dies from an asthma attack. Sometimes it's a simple Socratic discussion. Other times it's a different way of reading a novel.

It's not that I'm against knowledge. I'm not advocating that schools abandon the Quadratic Formula or throw away the copies of Shakespeare. Wisdom is an expansion of knowledge. It's that second step of guiding knowledge toward thinking well about life or being empathetic or learning to love. It's an embrace of why does this matter? rather than simply how will this be tested?