Good Morning Digital Neighbors! MONDAY, MONDAY, MONDAY! Grab your coffee and start your engines. Well if you are retired, I guess you can keep it in idle, but for the rest of you working souls, get in gear!😉 More quotes and opining by the Padre seems on the menu. The Forbes Book of Quotations has plenty to offer.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill

Much of the wisdom of one age is the folly of the next. - Arthur Schopenhauer

All three quotes on folly seem aptly appropriate for this current age in America and perhaps all of the West. I really can't speak beyond what I see happening in American culture, but it seems to be similar in much of Europe as well.

I tend to blame Academia more than anything else, and perhaps that is my folly, but I don't think so. Some of the worst ideas to pollute society and culture have come from the modern university. That doesn't mean that universities don't have something to offer, but when you teach folly as enlightenment and expect others to accept it we are on the road to ruin.

I'd like to go on all day, but I have training to do for the Special Olympics, women's swimming seems to be the thing these days and then I have attend a lecture on the Irish Diaspora and the reparations I'm due from the 13th century, compounded with interest and probably paid in Biden bucks, which means a cargo plane will be dumping the reparations on my lawn. I hope I get enough for a cup of coffee. ☕ Happy Monday Friends!

Some Black Hills for your morning shot of beauty.