To paraphrase Simon and Garfunkel:


Far too many People
“Hear what they want to hear – And disregard the Rest”

This phrase shows the great partisan divide and how hatred is manifested by empty words, spoken for “Elitisms” (substantive disguise) that, once examined – Ring Truly Hollow.  For which illustrates Freedom of Speech’s contrary ability to disregard the Truth by way of false labels – That Insidiously Harm – rather than Improve Humanities too often forlorn and most Promising Goals of Goodness, and Truth through Hopefully Substantive Honesty by way of our Freedom of Thought and Speech…

Or too be far more succinct: To Quote George Benard Shaw, a Literary Nobel Laureate:

“Truth can be turned Inside Out, like a Glove.”

This Quote is correct, as we live in a world where Demagogues persuade via the Emotions, Passions, Prejudices and Immaturity of others to self-serve themselves and
their equally ignorant and/or selfish values.

If you continue to read my rhetoric beyond this point, you will see why I believe that “Kindness”, and “Common Sense”, are necessary for Empirical and Rational based thought. So fundamental to our future; to our every moment…

As well as to Freedom and Empirical, not Subjective Truth…
 
Otherwise, I believe humanity will dismantle the fundamental Values of Goodness and Truth’s Essential Circumstanced/Nuanced Balance: Between Right and Wrong.

Thus: To only Hear what we want to hear – And Disregard the Rest…

Such a maxim, will implicitly only breed totalitarians, doomed to be victims of self-serving Ignorance rather than self-growth via the rigors of Knowledge.

To Quote Socrates:
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”

Russell Wolfe Otter 04/28/2026

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About www.otterthink.com

Retired from Telecommunications, and now am pursing a patent, that I wrote: www.noahi.com . Married, and live in Southern California, with 1 daughter, on her own now, and of course we love our dog "Happy"...! (Recently passed, but Alive in Me...) Also wrote a book in 2006, called "Swimming in Cosmic Soup"... (SECOND EDITION ONLY) Available everywhere... Retirement is not Mecca... It is driving me "Stir-Crazy", so I now write...! To grasp how I think, perhaps, try my first Blog: "It Only Takes One Thing!" My Blogs primarily involve: Philosophy, Values, Ethics, and Science. All The Best and Goodness moved forward, I hope for Everyone - Always! Cheers, Russ
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