When This Blows Over

Who Are Wise, Who Not?
Insight often comes not from an Ivy League degree
but by way of animal cunning, instinct, and hard
work.
“Cleverness is not wisdom.”
— Euripides
At the height of the sophistic age in classical Athens, the
playwright Euripides asked an eternal question in his
masterpiece, the Bacchae:
Or instead was true wisdom a deeper and more modest
appreciation of unchanging human nature throughout
the ages, which reminds us to avoid hubris, tread
carefully, always expect the unlikely, and distrust the
self-acclaimed wise who eventually prove clever fools?