Wisdom comes with observation, not age.
Observation takes time, age is a quantified time.
Yes, We Get Wiser with Age
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#64Age != Wisdom. Wisdom comes from Experience and living life. If you sit on a couch all day watching t.v. your experiences do not equal someone who goes out of the house, builds things, etc...
Wisdom is earned by doing, not by aging.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
an opaque process of decision-making (complete with several non-official-bodies, non-accountable to anyone, that nevertheless convene and take decisions that affect all member states) Can you specify what you mean by this?
Bodies like the Euro-group, a non-official body that "although it can impose tough conditions for bailing out struggling member countries or rescuing banks, it publishes no official minutes, has no headquarters, and the people who function as its secretariat have other day jobs".
They're the finance ministers of member countries. For them to be there someone has to vote in the respective governments...
Indirect democracy is still democracy. Heck, it's even the form of democracy 90% of democracies out there use.
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#66Age != Wisdom. Wisdom comes from Experience and living life. If you sit on a couch all day watching t.v. your experiences do not equal someone who goes out of the house, builds things, etc... Wisdom is earned by doing, not by aging.
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#67Wisdom is the degree to which you accept that you don't understand anything.
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#68> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
The objective implications of leaving the EU vs. staying in it -- things like trade agreements, the land border with Ireland, and which decisions were imposed by the EU vs. decided by the UK government -- were poorly understood by most of the population. It was a complex issue and most people, regardless of age, were out of their depth. Wisdom, gained in completely unrelated areas, isn't much use if you don't know the facts.
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#69Age != Wisdom. Wisdom comes from Experience and living life. If you sit on a couch all day watching t.v. your experiences do not equal someone who goes out of the house, builds things, etc... Wisdom is earned by doing, not by aging.
And theirs do not equal to yours. While it is generally admitted that "outside" is more experience-rich and your inequality is mathematically correct, you force the statement that interacting with "non-real" entities does not generate experience. This is not true, actually. Ask a gamer, a worker, a stripper, a mother about their experiences and they'll tell you hell of a lot you traveller never experienced or even thought of. Wisdom is a function of time among other arguments, though the application area and the volume of it may vary on many of these. One cannot age and do nothing, except for few percent of extereme isolation cases.
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#70> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging. How does this explain Brexit? https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfro…
I don't know enough about Brexit to form an opinion, which is good. It enables to to seriously ask this question. Have you actually considered that your opinion on Brexit could be wrong? Have you really given that any consideration? I don't have a nickel invested, so your answer doesn't matter to me. It may matter to you, however.
Agree. Unlike how most news outlets portray it, most issues have valid points on both sides. If someone doesn't understand both sides and can argue either, they don't really understand the problem. If they don't understand the problem and defer to news coverage, and are being manipulated.
Based on most of the coverage of Brexit, I wouldn't have any idea what the pro-Brexit points are.
I also don't have a horse in that race, just observations.