BEYOND INFORMATION

                    The World Wide Web, a wondrous resource
                    For those desiring to stay up to date
                    On breaking news or follow the long course
                    Of history or prep for a debate,

                    Is, nonetheless, not all that humans need
                    To fare well in our foremost enterprise,
                    For it takes more than knowledge to succeed:
                    Our paramount endeavor’s to grow wise.

                    A Global Wisdom Culture is our goal,
                   To be not only well informed but good,
                   Apprised of what makes human beings whole:
                   Knowing not what we might, but what we should.

                       What then’s the foremost project of a mind?
                       Our greatest sapience is to grow kind.

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