Why do we think politicians know best, when we make so many mistakes in our personal lives?

Rick Lowe

Dr. Sandford (Sandy) Ikeda says a whole lot here in his weekly column for The Freeman Online…

It’s very hard to know what is worth preserving and what it would be better to let go of even in our private lives.  Should we keep an extra pair of running shoes (“They’re still good!”) or throw them out?  Should we renovate the kitchen or not?  It’s hard enough for each of us individually to make those decisions – sometimes we’re right, sometimes we’re wrong – but at the level of the community, the polity, the nation, well, we’re in way over our heads.  It’s in the nature of things – wabi-sabi:  nothing lasts; nothing is finished; nothing is perfect. Read the entire article here…

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