Friday, January 5, 2018

The Value of Silence

Far too often, we obtain a small portion of information and then, thinking we are informed, begin to speak.  This sort of thing takes place often in the field of politics.  I suspect that there is much data unreleased to the general public.  Meetings take place, documents are shared with a small control group and experts in their fields are engaged in decision making processes by those in power.  And all of this takes place, typically, outside of our purview. 
Our first response should be silence.  If we suspect (and we should) that we are missing large portions of information, we should not speak as if we are well informed.

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