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On the plane, one equipped with satellite television, I look down the aisle and see Barack Obama delivering a speech and I ask myself "why are things in our world the way they are, and why can they not be different?".
Have we stopped thinking?
Can we stop listening to the opinions of people who want to do our thinking for us and, instead, wake up.

"Who are you?"
"Why are you?"

Obama is our Socrates.
He wants citizens to think, and they want to kill him, for undermining the gods of their convenience and attracting their children.
Wisdom accrues to intelligent people who want to learn more.
Obama, considered an outsider by those who feel they know more than enough, thank you, responds with patience.
How much patience might it require?
How much new do we really want to know?
Maybe somewhere in India .....


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