Why Are We So Obssessed With Certain People?
Today is Donald Trump's Inauguration Day. As usual, the media and most people generally are going over the top about it. Let me first insert a personal disclaimer here - I never voted for either Trump or Biden, I am first of all a Christian and secondly a Libertarian. I have few expectations of Government, and try to vote for what will cause the least damage to ordinary folks. Government does have the potential to do good, but it seldom does. "Let us do evil that good may come" is NOT a Christian belief. When I was young, one of my teachers told us: "small minds talk about people, ordinary minds talk about things, great minds discuss ideas". This saying has been around a long time in various forms, apparently the earliest known is a quote from Henry T. Buckle, appearing in a 1901 autobiography by Charles Stewart. “Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class ...
