Liberals need to preserve their defences against the unwisdom of crowds in the form of bills of rights, second chambers in parliament, independent courts and other barriers against elective dictatorship.
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Leave aside, for a second, the unwisdom of giving Kim Jong-un recognition and prestige after he spends his time threatening the world with nuclear weapons and murdering his own people, not to mention his own family members.
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Yes, his fame also boosted him on social media, but there you can partially blame algorithms and the unwisdom of crowds; with television news there were actual human beings, charged with exercising news judgment and inclined to posture as civic-minded actors when it suits them, making the decision to hand day after day of free coverage to Donald Trump's rallies, outrages, feuds and personal attacks.
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The Islands of Unwisdom is an historical novel by Robert Graves, published in 1949. It was also published in the UK as The Isles of Unwisdom.
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The voyage's story is told in The Islands of Unwisdom, an historic novel by Robert Graves.
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According to this text the Buddha criticized this notion: "Truly the Baka Brahmā is covered with unwisdom."Hajime Nakamura, A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy: Part One. Reprint by Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1990, pages 137-138.
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In drama, the character tempts the protagonist into foolish action, successfully or not. In an allegorical painting, the figure may be counterpoised to Prudence, representing a choice, or alone, representing the unwisdom of the actors in the painting.
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In the short-run, tax revenues have declined significantly due to a severe recession and tax-policy choices, while expenditures have expanded for wars, unemployment insurance and other safety net spending. Krugman, Paul essay (May 2011). "The Unwisdom of Elites". The New York Times.
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Queirós visited the Solomons in 1606, but was unable to establish a settlement. The Solomons were not again visited by outsiders until 1767, when Philip Carteret sighted Santa Cruz and Malaita islands. The story of the voyage is told in The Islands of Unwisdom, a historical novel by Robert Graves.
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It is a key concept in Buddhism, wherein Avidya about the nature of reality, rather than sin, is considered the basic root of Dukkha. Removal of this Avidya leads to overcoming of Dukkha. While Avidyā found in Buddhism and other Indian philosophies is often translated as "ignorance", states Alex Wayman, this is a mistranslation because it means more than ignorance. He suggests the term "unwisdom" to be a better rendition.
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He merely signed the customary testimonial to his election and as a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese voted that the election be confirmed. Hall said that he had vowed "obedience" as one of his three vows when he joined the Society, and whatever he might think of the wisdom or unwisdom of his superior, obey he would and did. Hall remained in England until he was elected bishop of Vermont.
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109 Even amongst the > Orangemen the spirit of patriotism was stirring – hands were stretched out > from Ulster to the Catholics of the South. Lord Rossmore, once Grandmaster > of the Orange Institution, joined the League, Sharman Crawford and others. > Unionism was declared by them to be a "discredited creed". Nationalist and > Unionists were called upon to recognise the unwisdom of perpetuating a > suicidal strife which sacrificed them to religious bigotry and the political > exigencies of English partie.
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Any old dog about the house will soon show him the unwisdom of > biting big dogs' ears. Being young, he remembers and goes abroad, at six > months, a well-mannered little beast with a chastened appetite. If he had > been kept away from boots, and soap, and big dogs till he came to the > trinity full-grown and with developed teeth, just consider how fearfully > sick and thrashed he would be! Apply that motion to the "sheltered life," > and see how it works.
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He wrote that he believed "that the campaign for securing out of Germany the general costs of the war was one of the most serious acts of political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible", and called the treaty a "Carthaginian peace" that would economically affect all of Europe. Keynes said that the treaty's reparation figures "generally exceed Germany's capacity" to pay. He said that was the "safe maximum figure", but even then he did "not believe that [Germany could] pay as much".
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Roberts next drew two conclusions. First, he found that a current labor dispute had existed as required under Section 2(3). Mackay Radio had argued that it was not at fault for the failed contract talks, but Justice Roberts concluded that was irrelevant. "The wisdom or unwisdom" of the union's decision to strike did not matter; all that mattered was that a current labor dispute existed.304 U.S. at 344. Second, Justice Roberts implicitly refused to involve the court in assessing whether Section 2(3) constitutionally made striking workers employees.
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The bishops gave sermons—Orleton, for example, spoke of how "a foolish king shall ruin his people", and, report Dunham and Wood, he "dwelt weightily upon the folly and unwisdom of the king, and upon his childish doings". This, says Ian Mortimer, was "a tremendous sermon, rousing those present in the way he knew best, through the power of the word of God". Orleton based his sermon on the biblical text "Where there is no governor the people shall fall" from the Book of Proverbs, while the Archbishop of Canterbury took for his text Vox Populi, Vox Dei.
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One of the themes in Locke's anthology is self-expression. Locke states, "It was rather the necessity for fuller, truer self-expression, the realization of the unwisdom of allowing social discrimination to segregate him mentally, and a counter-attitude to cramp and fetter his own living—and so the 'spite-wall'... has happily been taken down." He explains how it is important to realize that social discrimination can mentally affect you and bring you down. In order to break through that social discrimination, self- expression is needed to show who you truly are, and what you believe in.
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The change implied by this new stage in its evolution is that whereas heretofore this tender plant was protected in its obscurity from the attention of external elements, it has now become exposed. This exposure invites close observation, and that observation will eventually lead to opposition in various quarters. So, far from adopting a carefree attitude, the community must be conscious of the necessity to present a correct view of itself and an accurate understanding of its purpose to a largely skeptical public. A greater effort, a greater care must now be exercised to ensure its protection against the malice of the ignorant and the unwisdom of its friends.
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Believing that the Diocese of York was too large, he proposed reducing it by forming a new Diocese of Sheffield, which after several years' work was inaugurated in 1914. In the years following his appointment, Lang spoke out on a range of social and economic issues, and in support of improved working conditions. After taking his seat in the House of Lords in February 1909, he made his maiden speech in November in the debate on the controversial People's Budget, advising the Lords against their intention to reject this measure. He cast his first Lords vote against rejection, because he was "deeply convinced of the unwisdom of the course the Lords proposed to take".
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He stated: "I believe that the campaign for securing out of Germany the general costs of the war was one of the most serious acts of political unwisdom for which our statesmen have ever been responsible." Keynes had been the principal representative of the British Treasury at the Paris Peace Conference, and used in his passionate book arguments that he and others (including some US officials) had used at Paris. He believed the sums being asked of Germany in reparations were many times more than it was possible for Germany to pay, and that these would produce drastic instability. Commemorative medal issued in 1929 in the Republic of Weimar on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the "shameful" Treaty of Versailles.
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The diminution in the receipts from second-class passengers, which was one of the results, was regarded by some authorities as a sign of the unwisdom of his action, but to him it appeared a sufficient reason for the abolition of second-class carriages, which therefore disappeared from the Midland system in 1875, the first-class fares being at the same time substantially reduced. He was a director of the Midland from 1854 to 1857, but returned to being the general manager. When he retired in 1880 he was given an honorary directorship, and was knighted in 1884. Allport was sponsor of an Act of Parliament in 1883 to install a network of high- pressure cast iron water mains under London.
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