We have too many people in high places who have discovered you can be in high places wielding immense power for a few billion dollars flying on wings of wax and feathers.  They, along with us who put them there, are currently learning the lessons of the ancients. All wealth is “bling” on the scale of the universe.  To really know that we need to be wiser and more grounded in our studies of the humanities and liberal arts.  “Liberal Arts” is not a political term.  Liberal arts is a broadly based study of language, history, philosophy and religion that outlines the most basic errors and inspirations of human history.  Ignore the humanities and doom yourself to repeat all those errors, for the human brain may be elastic, but it is not omniscient and 5 thousand years is nothing to brain evolution. 

Our president is learning the consequences of using his billions to fashion wax wings to fly easily to the sun. Pity the poor artist who skips the bronzing step in sculpture. On a hot day he is selling a puddle of wax. The same goes for politicians.  The trip up to the sun is heady and full of fun. The apex of the journey though is a painful inevitable melt down with feathers and melted wax trailing in the wake to earth. Our president simply doesn’t know the layers of history and consequence that could have spared him and us the current war, or the shameful deportation debacle being carried out as this is written.  Many people feel like the problem is his incompetence or cruelty and use that as a basis for hating him.  But he has made little effort tried to cover up his lack rage at life and the poor. We, the voters, bought the ticket and we are on for the ride. We are wasting our time blaming the vendor. 

Clear Message for Good

A deep education preceding leadership is not simply an option for political candidates at the highest levels, but rather absolutely necessary in this modern complex world.  We cannot afford to replicate all the errors of history just because we don’t want to study hard and long.  In seeing someone in leadership with so little depth of understanding it is a short leap to say good is bringing back the humanities as a foundation for a good education to prepare leaders. Any representative of  America needs a grounded liberal arts/humanities educational experience complete with reading what are now called disparagingly “academic books”.  To complete a leaders education we then must add the technical skills of the chosen vocation. Foundation and vocation and then we are back on track. Judging from what is going on today, if education doesn’t appeal to you, you can at least enroll your children in Mandarin classes because if we keep this up that will be the next commercial language. Let’s build ourselves and our minds back up. That would be good because those folks with the wax wings don’t have the bronze to competently help.