On the Benefits of Babbling

Morning Thoughts #4

Does this happen to anyone else? Anytime I begin to feel the urge to speak or write a fully assured opinion having to do with contemporary political matters, no matter how benign, I feel debased and dirty. It’s as if I’m about to wade into mud covering nothing valuable with my only pair of clothes—and the one friend who came with me on this journey is half-likely to become my enemy at the end of whatever point I’m threatening to make. Better to babble like a child that has not yet learned to speak than to discuss such matters. An infant’s babbling is preparing it for something greater (fully realized speech), while the hot air from political commentators and sanctimonious activists the world over is doing nothing but changing the world’s spiritual climate for the worse. A good rule of thumb to live by: those that never question themselves do not have answers for anyone else.