It is not possible for any one person to achieve wisdom, that is a collective function. By the same token, it is not possible for any one person to contribute to the whole if they isolate their consciousness in a narrow discipline. This is where policy leadership had failed–we are “led” by individuals whose reading and thinking is, at best, cursory, who fail to do the outreach to the diversity of views that would enrich any deliberation, and who fail to be honest about the foundations for their decisions, in almost all cases corrupt, selfish, and in favor of special interests.
