The Danger of Incomplete Knowledge
I have gotten a lot of things wrong lately. Mostly, I have gotten things wrong because at the time I originally thought something about some current issue, my knowledge was incomplete. However, I have learned not to put most of my immediate knee jerk reactions to every story out there on social media for the world to see. (It only took me 15 years to learn that lesson). There is a scary danger in our instant world and self-created echo chambers...the truth suffers. Not my truth or your truth but THE TRUTH. Let me give you an example from our headlines today. Troy Aikman was caught on a hot mic talking about the waste of jet fuel because of a fly over to a mostly empty stadium. Immediately, the twitter storm raged. People defended and people berated. People turned it into a moratorium on Aikman's patriotism. My initial reaction to the whole thing was the following: Maybe Troy Aikman had become an environmentalist of sorts and saw the waste of jet fuel as something that