And the Philosophers say...

... much, as it turns out-

There is accepted wisdom and there is Applied Wisdom. Unfortunately Humanity is not a perfect machine, that uses both forms of wisdom in ever-evolving completion. What this means, is that- We are forever in need of those that can use accepted wisdom in order to Re-Apply it to our current condition. And, thus, all progress depends.

So, Get off your ass and apply some effin wisdom, if you want anything to get any better in your own life- or collectively, as a whole.

"One day at a time, Sweet Jay-sus"

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/archim/sand/sandreck.htm

"Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that
Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil.

Again in the Academica he attributes to Varro the following view:
It is my view, and it is universally agreed, that Socrates was the first person who summoned philosophy away from mysteries veiled in concealment by nature herself, upon which all philosophers before him had been engaged, and led it to the subject of ordinary life, in order to investigate the virtues and vices, and good and evil generally, and to realize that heavenly matters are either remote from our knowledge or else, however fully known, have
nothing to do with the good life."

(from Routledge History of Philosophy vol.I)

hindsight being 20/20, we can do away with Cicero's embellishment. Philosophy was no more introduced by Socrates to humanity than morality. But, still, his analysis was of the first, and is to be respected as such. He was one of the first to recognize this for its value and expound upon it for the greater good of man's awakening self-awareness...

Know Thyself. And to take it one step further- KNOW EACH OTHER.

The basic elements always remain the same. It is for this generation (not the mention the next, and then the next again) to find itself in these basic elements and re-discover the old wisdom and embellish upon it ourselves. Without this, we are as nothing.