Orthodoxies and agendas wriggle their way into people’s thinking in so many ways it takes a very strong commitment to the integrative mindset to get clear of them. Also people are so afraid of not knowing something that overly strong and premature decision making becomes valued over honest and thorough observation. Throw ego into that formula and you’ve got what passes for “truth”, “authority” and “enlightened policy”.

If economists and political leaders realized that on a scale of actual knowing, Not Knowing is second from the top right below Knowing…not way down the scale close to ignorance or confusion, then their ignorance, confusion and fear would be transformed into the intellectual virtue, openness and understanding known as Wisdom.