Most people today are trusting in what is generally accepted. Not what is assuredly true.

Like what the doctors say. What the scientists say. What their professors say. What their favorite authors say. What their favorite actors say. What their favorite social media people say. What their favorite news sources say.

Or what their pastors say.

In other words, they look to these groups or “authorities” to get the common or the conventional wisdom of the day.

And most people look to the positions and pontifications coming from the many institutions of higher learning across the country. What they say. What they declare is true.

But why?

What Really is it about these institutions that gives them such weight in our world and our culture?

By what authority do they really speak? What is the real foundation upon which they stand?

Some consider asking such questions to be ridiculous.

Because much of the world believes that those who have a degree or two or three are smarter and wiser and more aware of what reality is than the rest of us less-educated folk.

And, therefore, the more highly-educated are given that authority.

The authority to tell the rest of us what is actually true.

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