In recent years, I've come to the conclusion that, once one reaches the age of 50 or so, one knows about as much as anyone else of nominally equal age. By that I mean that knowledge, accumulated over the same period of time, tends to be about equal. It certainly will be different knowledge, but the amount is about the same. Consequently, if you put a dozen guys of about that age in a room, there's actually a really large amount of knowledge in the room. The trick, of course, is to unify it into a large amount of wisdom, rather than just those random bits of accumulated knowledge.

Though there aren't as many of us who still remember Harry Truman, or even who he was, there are still many years' highly diverse experience available in raw form. The trick, here, is to congeal that into an equivalent mass of wisdom.

Yes, there are problems encountered in that some of us are more fluent in English than others, and, even among those of us for whom English is the primary language that we use every day, some manage to put things more understandably than others. Nobody's typing or spelling or syntax is utterly perfect, sad to say. Nevertheless, were we to pool our intellectual resources rather than trying to outshine one another all the time or occasionally, we'd be able to do a lot of good.

Let's think about that.

RE