War is big business, so why should the world’s managers end wars and cut their profits? …

… and as many of you have probably already read on the internet, Bob Dylan said it best…..

So who’s REALLY to blame for the war(s)?

Which war? Any war?

“The war is no one person faults, and no one is to blame” is one view i’ve heard.

But blaming one side or the other, and one leader of another, would be fairly normal and predictable response from many.

But sometimes it’s easy to point fingers, and when it points at wars, what you see & hear is not necessarily what is; but we’ll never know how accurate those fingers were.

Common perceptions include that WW2 was Hitler’s fault, that Lyndon Johnson was responsible for upgrading the Vietnam conflict into a major war, and that Putin is to blame for the Ukrainian war.

Those are the general perceptions, but how accurate are they really? Who’s really the power behind the thrones?

Is it those who are making billions every time any country plans and actualizes a war.

I lived through the genocide labelled the Vietnam War, and here we are still.

 War is big business, which is why the more things change, the more they stay the same. So would the real Masters Of War please stand up! LOL

But Bob Dylan said it best;

“Come, you masters of war

You that build the big guns

You that build the death planes

You that build all the bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks

You that never done nothing

But build to destroy

You play with my world

Like it’s your little toy

You put a gun in my hand

And you hide from my eyes

And you turn and run farther

When the fast bullets fly

Like Judas of old

You lie and deceive

A world war can be won

You want me to believe

But I see through your eyes

And I see through your brain

Like I see through the water

That runs down my drain

You fasten all the triggers

For the others to fire

Then you set back and watch

While the death count gets higher

You hide in your mansion

While the young people’s blood

Flows out of their bodies

And is buried in the mud

You’ve thrown the worst fear

That can ever be hurled

Fear to bring children

Into the world

For threatening my baby

Unborn and unnamed

You ain’t worth the blood

That runs in your veins

How much do I know

To talk out of turn?

You might say that I’m young

You might say I’m unlearned

But there’s one thing I know

Though I’m younger than you

That even Jesus would never

Forgive what you do

Let me ask you one question

Is your money that good?

Will it buy you forgiveness?

Do you think that it could?

I think you will find

When your death takes its toll

All the money you made

Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die

And your death will come soon

I will follow your casket

By the pale afternoon

And I’ll watch while you’re lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I’ll stand over your grave

‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead.” – Bob Dylan

Masters of War 

Lyrics by Bob Dylan provided via YouTube Capture

Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the experience and the content. Cheers, joseph 

https://about.me/jravick

“If you light a candle for somebody else, it also brightens your path.”
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” – W.L. Watkinson

The Radicalization of Climate Activism….

“If you don’t like what I’ve done, what bold action will you undertake to protect mother earth, our one and only home?”

 

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This story is being re-published from YES! News. Since the greedy American social media moguls won't respect Canadian rights, and still refuse to let us share some published stories through their platforms, i will be posting and sharing informational articles which i find important as many others are also doing.

By CHUCK COLLINS,

the director of the program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org. His new book is, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions, is about the wealth hiding industry (Polity). Featured Photo by Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post. Featured Image via Getty Images

 SEP 29, 2023

A vigil is held in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., April 29, 2022, to honor Wynn Alan Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado.

 

In 2022, on Earth Day, a 50-year-old Buddhist named Wynn Bruce self-immolated on the steps of the United States Supreme Court Building, just as the high court was poised to weaken laws regulating carbon emissions. Bruce’s action was motivated by a deep concern about climate change.

The story of Wynn Bruce is not well known. But as it becomes clear that our political system is incapable of responding to the scale of the climate emergency unfolding before us, radical actions like Bruce’s will continue. In the coming years we are going to witness an overall escalation of activist tactics in response to the climate crisis.

In my new novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, I explore this shift through real, historical actions as well as fictional, potential actions. My protagonist, a lifelong environmental activist named Rae Kelliher, is deeply formed by the nonviolent social change movements of the past four decades, including the efforts to stop construction of nuclear power plants, avoid a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua, and prevent construction of a fracked gas pipeline in her Boston neighborhood. In each case, she engages in unwavering tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience and witness, usually after exhausting all legal remedies to preventing harms. But facing down a diagnosis of terminal cancer as she approaches age 70, Rae engages in a shocking act, taking her own life and the life of a fossil fuel CEO whom she blames for delaying society’s response to climate change.

Rae’s husband, Reggie, who is virulently opposed to violent tactics, argues presciently that her action will lead to negative blowback, with the hammer of state repression coming down on social movements and criminalizing dissent. We can see this in our world today, with racketeering charges against Cop City protesters and harsh penalties dealt to water protectors. But as Reggie later observes, it is hard to suppress a “decentralized army of terminally ill patients” who engage in militant acts at the end of life.

While the choice Rae makes in the novel is fictional, the situation she faces is all too real: It is the situation we are facing right now.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report underscores that if we stay on our current course, in terms of carbon and methane emissions, we will blow past the “defense line” of a 1.5 C (2.7 F) temperature increase with disastrous impacts in the form of weird weather, droughts, floods, and challenges to our food system.

We now know from investigative reporting that the largest fossil fuel companies, Shell and ExxonMobil, have known for decades about the dangerous repercussions of burning coal, gas, and oil. Yet for almost half a century, the industry deployed its considerable assets and power to deny climate change, fund disinformation and doubt about the science, lobby to block energy-efficient alternatives, and delay timely responses. And the industry’s reckless pursuits continue unabated in the face of surging global heat waves.

As you read this, the leaders of a couple dozen global energy corporations are making conscious decisions to build new infrastructure to extract and burn billions of tons of carbon and methane that is presently sequestered. A Guardian expose identified 195 carbon-bomb projects; each will burn a billion tons of carbon over its lifetime.

The largest banks and financial institutions in the world are providing the investment capital to enable this extraction. They are all betting against humanity, counting on the failure of governments and social movements to stop their activities. The U.S. government is gridlocked between one political party that is entirely subservient to the carbon barons—and another party still mostly captured by energy interests.

Meanwhile, among those who are adamant that major changes are necessary, the debate about what to do reels between magical thinking and defeatism. Proposals range from untested and risky techno-fixes to hyperlocal civic engagement around carbon drawdown and regenerative agriculture. Others have already started grieving the losses they see coming or have withdrawn from civic engagement, believing our political system incapable of forming an adequate response.

However, there is still time to secure a livable future, or at least a “Better Catastrophe,” as humorist Andrew Boyd describes it. We can still shift the trajectory away from the worst-case scenarios if we act decisively in the next seven years, dramatically reducing fossil fuel consumption and implementing a wide range of mitigation and adaption strategies. But the first step is to stop the pipeline, if you will, of new fossil fuel infrastructure for extraction and burning. 

The fossil fuel industry and its leaders will not voluntarily make these changes. The tobacco industry was the last to admit that smoking was bad for our health. Big Oil, Big Gas, and Big Coal will extract until they are stopped by external pressure. And if they are not stopped, they will destroy the world.

Who will stop them? State actors are unable to meaningfully respond at this point. Witness the Conference of the Parties process, with all the world’s leaders sitting around a table, increasingly cutting deals with polluters. At the same time, corporate defenders of the energy status quo have created a significant propaganda industry—including think tanks, astroturf advocacy groups, and symbolic “net zero” campaigns—to distract us. As Rebecca Solnit observes, the fossil fuel industry is promoting “carbon footprint” tracking to reinforce the “we are all responsible for climate change” deflection from its own culpability.

The divestment movement has inspired thousands of institutions to pledge to move more than USD$40.5 trillion out of fossil fuel investments while “revoking the social license” of the industry. One coalition is calling for U.S. lawmakers to establish a climate tribunal to investigate the role of the fossil fuel industry in fomenting denial and delay in responding to the climate crisis. But it is hard to imagine the current oil-soaked Congress acting on such an idea.

I am not surprised that a growing number of people have given up on our political system as a path for making change. Instead, they focus on private sector responses or social movement interventions in blocking new fossil fuel infrastructure—such as Standing Rock and the Valve Turners. Other forms of disruptive direct action, such as efforts by Extinction Rebellion and Climate Defiance, are critical in drawing attention to the urgency of the fight. 

But ultimately, in the absence of radical, system-wide solutions, these efforts can only serve as delay tactics. What we need is a bold “just transition” program that ends fossil fuels as soon as possible. This should include a declaration of a federal climate emergency; an immediate moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure; an immediate elimination of all fossil fuel subsidies; and a public/government takeover and rapid phaseout of the fossil fuel sector while using its superprofits to fund the transition.

Without such actions, the collision course between ecological realities and our insufficient societal responses will only intensify. The coming decade will see more Wynn Bruce–like acts of desperation as well as acts of eco-sabotage such as those depicted in the new dramatic film, How to Blow Up a  Pipeline, based on the nonfiction book of the same title by Andreas Malm.

As the fictional Rae Kelliher says in anticipation of those who will object to her radical and violent act: If you don’t like what I’ve done, what bold action will you undertake to protect mother earth, our one and only home?

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Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the experience and the content. Cheers, joseph 

https://about.me/jravick

“If you light a candle for somebody else, it also brightens your path.”
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” – W.L. Watkinson 

 

Betrayed and deserted, Jane’s life changed — for the better.

This is a true story of one woman's experiences as she was betrayed and ultimately deserted after 35 years of marriage. The trauma ultimately motivated her to self actualize and become a stronger, more confident, and happier woman. This story was published a number of years ago in her local magazine, and has been republished on my blog with her permission. I have changed all names.

Starting Over:  After the Affair(s), when Jane’s husband left her for a younger  woman, her life changed — for the better.

Thirty-eight years ago, at the age of 19, I married John, my first real boyfriend. I was head-over-heels in love with him, but even before we walked down the aisle, the writing was on the wall. While we were en­gaged he was seeing someone else, but when I tried to leave him, he broke down and cried, telling me he loved me and promising it would never happen again. I so much wanted to be­lieve him, which is why I went through with the wedding. But in retrospect, I should have seen that as an omen, a sign of things to come.

If I had stuck to my guns all those years ago, I could have saved myself a great deal of heartache. But when you’re young and in love_

The first affair I knew about was four years after we were mar­ried. I was at home with the chil­dren, and didn’t know what to do. So like many women in the same circumstances, I didn’t do any­thing at all hoping it would blow over. And it did, until the next time, and the next, and the next.

No one knew about his extra­marital affairs. Not his children, our neighbours or my closest friends. How could I have told anyone? You feel such a fool when you’ve never worked, looked after your own finances or even driven a car. All I had ever done was stay at home and raise my three kids, look after my husband, and our house. How could I admit to anyone that my life was less than perfect? That even in this domain, I wasn’t re­ally in charge, respected or happy?

This went on for several decades until six years ago when everything finally fell apart. He told everyone I was going through the menopause and that they would have to excuse my tears and unhappiness, never for one minute accepting responsi­bility for them himself. He told everyone that I would never be able to survive on my own, and we all believed him, which is why I stayed. I’d never had a job as I had no qualifications because of getting married so young and he said minimum wage jobs would mess up his taxes. He told me I was good for nothing, and un­dermined my confidence so much that I really thought I didn’t de­serve any better.

Then, three years ago, he came home and told me he was leaving me for Christine, a woman the same age as our youngest son. I immediately packed my bags and went to stay with my son and daughter-in-law, and then onto my daughter and her husband. A month later I was in hospital after threatening to take my own life. My daughter and her family came and looked after me and finally, with the support of my family and friends, I went back home to get on with my new life without John. 

During this time, I learned what love and real friendship truly mean, and I don’t think I could have got through this without the incredible support system I discovered I had.

I learned to get my own bank account, write cheques, use the ATM machine and pay my bills over the phone. One great friend taught me to drive at the ripe old age of 54, and I haven’t looked back since!

I also have a job. Minimum wage, doing housework for other people, but I love working outside my home, meeting new people and having my own identity and money. I am considering starting my own business, although I still have John’s voice in my ear telling me that I can’t do it, and that I’m no good, but I’m getting there. I’ve started career counselling, and for the first time ever I’m excited about the future.

I’ve heard through the grapevine that John has married Christine. I wish them both well.

I’m not jealous in the slightest, Since John leaving was the best thing that ever happened to me. I am now my own person, no longer just “John’s wife,” and have gone back to using my maiden name because I now know who I am. And I like that person. I’m proud of who I’ve finally become.

Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the experience and the content. Cheers, joseph       https://about.me/jravick

“If you light a candle for somebody else, it also brightens your path.”
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” – W.L. Watkinson

The genius will be in the details when you celebrate, (and thankfully appreciate) the small joys you experience!

Canadians are celebrating Thanksgiving Day this coming Monday, and maybe for the whole weekend. But wouldn’t it be awesome if people made every day a THANKSGIVING DAY?

11 Milestones To Celebrate That Aren’t Marriage, Birthdays Or Babies  By Monica Torres in HuffPost

We asked people to share the nontraditional occasions they’ve commemorated. From perimenopause to student loan repayment, here are the best ones.

Oct 6, 2023, 05:45 AM EDT

 This story is being re-published from HuffPost. Since the greedy American Social media moguls won't respect Canadian rights, and still refuse to let us share some stories, i will be posting And sharing stories which i find important until the American imperialists come to their senses, again! LOL

By Monica Torres– “We asked people to share the nontraditional occasions they’ve commemorated. From perimenopause to student loan repayment, here are the best ones.”

These are the unique celebrations and private rituals people have thrown themselves to honor their unconventional milestones.

This summer, my friend and I threw a joint celebration to honor our 10 years of living in New York City. The barbecue was delicious, the playlist was impeccable, but what I remember most is how grateful I felt to see all the friends I have made in the past decade commute from different boroughs, bring their baked goods and sides, and spend the afternoon with us.

It reminded me how rare it can be as an adult to gather friends to celebrate beyond the traditional milestones of getting married, having children or turning one year older.

So I asked people to share the nontraditional milestones they commemorated and I was surprised, charmed and heartened by all the unique celebrations and private rituals people have thrown themselves. Prepare to take notes and get inspired.

 A Year Of Learning A New Language: This past year, Laliya Sabuni, who is based in Phoenix, Arizona, decided to learn French with the app Duolingo. She would send her friends screenshots as she passed her 10-, 50-, 100-day milestones of her language lesson streak.

“Every day, I am pausing everything I am doing just to make sure I continue my streak…clubs, bars, work, Beyoncé renaissance concert,” Sabuni recalled. “For a year, the streak was part of my daily life routine!”  Finally she reached her one-year streak of doing language learning activities and decided to throw a party in September to mark the occasion.

“I am working hard to learn French and continuing my streak, which is basically why I wanted to throw a party,” Sabuni said. “It’s important to celebrate all accomplishments, big or small.“

Graduation From Grad School:  “I celebrated getting into grad school with a frozen pizza, a bottle of lemonade, and Netflix by myself. When I graduated from grad school this past September, I celebrated by going to Ed Sheeran’s acoustic show in Vancouver B.C. by myself,” she said. “It felt amazing not to have a big party like I had to celebrate my college graduation.”

“By having a more intimate celebration, I was able to reflect on how hard I had to worked to get my Masters degree,” Weseman continued.

The Launch Of A New Business:  Nia Allen, who is based in Lubbock, Texas, was supposed to open a luxury consignment store in Cleveland for Black women in February 2021 as part of her Kent State University thesis. But then COVID happened, so it became an online pop-up.

But opening a store was still a “huge” moment she wanted to celebrate, so she created T-shirts for the event that quickly sold out and had a friend curate a playlist for the occasion. She then hosted a Zoom party with around 20 of her friends the night before her online pop-up went live.

“There were several conversations about how important it was to bask in the moment but also [my friends] celebrated that this store was the first of its kind for my school and I should be proud of that,” Allen said. “Also I did this while being a full-time graduate student and a full-time mom to my son.”

“It meant the world to me because I did it. I almost gave up on my voice and perspective in the fashion industry, but it showed my voice mattered,” Allen said.

Sober-versaries: “‘Sober-versaries’ are surprisingly bittersweet, similar to birthdays. 

We can feel proud of how far we’ve come, and also mourn the person we once were,” said Celeste Yvonne, a recovery coach and author of “It’s Not About the Wine: The Loaded Truth Behind Mommy Wine Culture.”

On these days, “I welcome all the feelings, including the complicated ones. I reflect on how much has changed, and how much I’ve grown.“

Yvonne said she purposefully tracks her sober time because it motivates her. In the past, she’s labeled a Martinelli’s apple cider with “Happy (X) Years Sober” and kept it in the fridge in the weeks leading up to the day, while on others she’s gone to dinner with her husband, or treated herself to a massage or pedicure.

“I will often celebrate with sparkling cider…a drink my whole family can share with me. And we toast my sobriety together, because it’s a gift to us all,” she said.

Passing The Bar Exam: After studying law and pursuing a career as a writer in Nigeria, Atoke, who asked not to share her full name for privacy, decided to go back to law and get her license to practice it in Canada when she turned 40.

“I wasn’t sure how legal education at 40 was going to be ― new country, new substance, new everything. But I was willing to try,” she said. “And it was so important to me to know that my family and my friends and my boss supported me every step of the way. With every exam I passed, there was someone sending me gifts and messages to say ‘You’ve got this.’“

Atoke passed all the Ontario bar exams in one sitting and celebrated the milestone last weekend with her friend who had also moved to Toronto from Nigeria and had passed her bar exams.

“We sat in my room, ate KFC chicken and drank champagne. It seems so low-budget but we were so happy just us and just so impressed by our achievements. It was a great experience,” Atoke said.

Completing 12 Rounds Of Chemotherapy: Racheli Alkobey Peltier arranges annual scavenger hunts with 12 quests for her friends to commemorate her 12 rounds of chemotherapy.

Racheli Alkobey Peltier, got diagnosed with stage 3 Hodgkin lymphoma when she was 21 and finished treatment for it on November 12, 2015. Every year since then, around that date, she gathers her friends to do “12 quests for 12 rounds of chemo.”

“We break up into teams, and we do a scavenger hunt around an area that I’ve chosen for that year. And there’s 12 tasks that we have to complete to commemorate the 12 rounds of chemo,” Alkobey Peltier said. She will pick the location and handle the invites as her husband helps to plan the quests.

Alkobey Peltier said she also commemorates the day she discovered her cancer diagnosis.

After finding out about her diagnosis, she kept her bowling plans. One of her friends bought a whole round of lemon drops for everybody. “My toast when we took the lemon drop shot was ‘Everything’s going to be OK.’ And that sort of ended up becoming my mantra for my entire treatment,” Alkobey Peltier said. And now she honors that with bowling and a lemon drop shot when that date comes.

“Sometimes it’s with two other people, or sometimes it’s with a group of 10, whatever it might be, but I will always bowl and always make sure to get lemon drops and do that toast,” she said.

Both dates hold special meaning. For her, diagnosis day is “the day that I was finally told what was wrong with me so that I can begin the process to heal. But it’s not a happy day,” while “the end of chemo is ‘Oh my gosh, my life can begin again.’”

“Everybody has a birthday, but these nontraditional things that we’ve been through and that have really upended our lives in some way to me feels much more special,” Alkobey Peltier said about why she maintains these traditions.

Job Promotions Or Other Career Successes: A while back, Stacy Oden, of Charleston, West Virginia, decided to gather her friends for a “Congrats/Level Up” dinner.  She had just gotten promoted and her friends were also coming up on major events like getting accepted into grad school, moving away, finishing nursing school, starting a business and motherhood. Oden said she and her friends met at a hibachi restaurant like they used to when they were teens.

Oden custom-made everyone a wine glass. “The wine glasses had their name written in my best penmanship and I used gold glass marker to create a sophisticated but subtle design…at top,” Oden said. “We went around the table talking about what we were proud of…then had a glass to toast to ourselves for later.”

“For me, it was a chance to give one another our flowers,” she recalled. “We’ve been able to meet up here and there since then, but that dinner was a turning point for so many of us who may have moved, graduated, separated or elevated.”

Paying Off Student Loans: When Em Daugherty finally finished paying her student loans in August 2022, she celebrated with cake that read “bye bye student loans.” She posted a TikTok about her experience:

“I wanted to celebrate a big milestone of paying off my loans because in my mind it was just as big of a deal, if not bigger, than a birthday or large celebration,” the Portland, Oregon-based digital creator said. “I worked two jobs to be debt-free, and finally reaching that goal was an accomplishment I wanted to commemorate with my family and friends.”

Since she was 16, Annette Ejiofor, of Toronto, Canada, has been dealing with “extremely painful periods.” In 2022, she finally got the confirmation from a doctor that the painful periods, back pain, hot flashes she was getting were due to endometriosis.

As part of addressing the pain, Ejiofor starting taking a new medication and got breast reduction surgery a month ago. She said afterwards, her entire body felt relief.

“This is the conclusion of a near-lifelong pain I have been dealing with and it’s a massive milestone,” she said.

How did she celebrate? “I went to Red Lobster and got some crab legs,” Ejiofor said.

Knowing Someone For Half Of Your Life: Dineen Cortesi, of Wappingers Falls, New York, said she met her husband Charles in her early 20s and “at some point we realized that we would reach a time that we have been together longer than we had not,” she said. So they decided to celebrate that occasion.

“We marked our calendars with two dates that we called ‘half my life day,’” Cortesi said. “My day came first during the year I turned 42, and my husband’s was during the year he turned 46.”

“As far as the actual celebration, both dates were private celebrations between the two of us consisting of a special meal and exchange of cards with love notes highlighting our gratitude to each other for dedicating so much…to our relationship,” Cortesi added.

Entering Perimenopause

ALISA KENNEDY JONES: Alisa Kennedy Jones threw a “Bridgerton”-themed perimenopause party for herself and friends.

“Looking back on one’s life and finding a way to tell a good yarn about it is the best, so why not do it with a party honoring this massive change you’re going through — because menopause is a full-body, all-systems, fix-the-plane-while-you’re-flying cellular transformation,” said Alisa Kennedy Jones about why she threw herself a perimenopause party.

Jones, who is based in San Francisco, said a boss had brought up the idea that between the mother and the “crone” phases that woman get associated with, there can be a highly generative, creative phase that is an “empress phase” or “empress age.”

“This really sparked my imagination about the potential for what this stage of life could be. And it also struck me as Bridgerton-esque,” she said.

The “Bridgerton” fictional series by Julia Quinn takes place in the Regency era of England. Jones had friends who worked in costuming, so “we had access to some crazy dresses, which it turns out are very hard to maneuver in as a group.” Beyond dressing up in their ballroom best for Jones’ afternoon party, the friends had a “high tea style” menu and a pink champagne fountain while they discussed topics ranging from what made them feel wiser to hormone replacement therapy and hacks for “hot flash nightmares at work.“

Jones also got the group to do an “Empress Oath.”

“I was like, ‘Let’s collaboratively write an oath of solidarity that we keep so that we remember to support each other throughout this shift,’ because I think a lot of women find themselves becoming rather invisible and isolated at this stage of life,” she said. “I really do see it as a rite of passage to a different era and you can either disappear or you can reemerge.”

“One of the things, we envisioned as a group was a ‘mom-mune,‘” Jones continued. “If we were going to grow older together, how would we support each other through the transitions of divorce and losing partners? So the dream of a big old ‘Golden Girls’ life in a house in the south of France was appealing. It’s a dream, but as a group, I feel like writing and swearing our oath to each other made us closer.”

Use these celebrations as a starting point, and let your imagination fill in the rest.

Once you move beyond the traditional markers of personal success like marriage, birthdays and babies, you’ll start to notice more of the big and small accomplishments that make life worth living. Your next occasion can be sooner than you think.

Thank you for reading my blog post. I hope you enjoyed the experience and the content. Cheers, joseph 

https://about.me/jravick

“If you light a candle for somebody else, it also brightens your path.”
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” – W.L. Watkinson

“The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.” #ignorance #knowledge #arrogance

Know-it-alls are often wrong, but never unsure!

Know-it-alls are often wrong, but never unsure!

“There’s no shame in admitting what you don’t know.    The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson

But know-it-alls don’t know what the don’t know, so can we blame them for misinforming others? 

So who’s really to blame if we act upon their advice? LOL