Want to Change Hearts and Minds? Try Humility

September 7th, 2022

Awake Goy

A friend recently sent me a popular meme called the Pyramid of Intellect. It shows the various academic degrees, starting at the base of the pyramid with a high school diploma and narrowing its way up to a doctorate. But at the very top of the pyramid is a little section that reads, “People who fix their cars after watching DIY videos.”

I laughed at it, but I couldn’t deny that this meme contains a decent amount of truth. Political elites, journalists, and those in the ivory towers are in the headlines, giving the press conferences, and standing in front of millions, looking important, and poised far above the common folk—those who often work with their hands, barely visible as they’re tucked in some little corner of Middle America….