What one bit of wisdom would you like to teach humanity?

Question

What one bit of wisdom would you like to teach humanity?
Suppose everyone would listen...

Answer

That the Socratic understanding of knowledge, that it begins with understanding our own ignorance, is the beginning of human awareness and that it is representative of our relationship with each other and to the cosmos. For we exist as middle beings, we know too much to be skeptics of all knowledge, yet we also know too little to be dogmatic about the knowledge we have. Time and time again the human race has attempted to deny this fact. Religion, when tied in with political authority, has repeated moved with frantic dogmatism to suppress, maim, and kill those who denied its central positions. The horror of the dogmatic regimes of the th century also showed us again how much humans crave blind certainty. In our own time, the rise of nihilism, a form of radical skepticism, denies our middle status by not seeing that radical skepticism is but the other side of the coin from dogmatic horror. Every period of total uncertainty always ends in a blind embrace of some form of dogmatism. The echoes of the Weimar Republic haunt the Western World right now so let us hope it ends better for us then it did for them.