What we’re about
Eleanor Roosevelt said:
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
I actually disagree with her regarding the "size" of the minds involved. I've known some brilliant, big hearted people who concern themselves with other people and their real world problems rather than the intellectual onanisms of philosophy and hypotheticals. In fact, one could argue that the "idea people" may be more inwardly focused than the outwardly-oriented "people people". Therefore, (being wrapped up in themselves) the "idea people" make a smaller package.
However you choose to interpret it, I humbly submit that my mind is no greater than anyone else's. However, I do seem to be more interested in brainstorming ideas with similarly inclined people.
"Not all who wander are lost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien
We are the wanderers.
There is only one sacred belief in this group — that Socrates was right when he said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. The unexamined life is not worth living. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
Per Dunning/Kruger, the more sure we are of something, the more likely we are to be mistaken. Often times it's just a matter of perspective. The bigger reality of eight billion perspectives in the world cannot fit into one person's head. The best we can do is walk a mile (or for an hour or two once a week) in someone else's moccasins.
Bring your metaphorical moccasins and let's get "walking"!
