does matter

I was listening to a radio talk show on the way home last night. Which one? Doesn't matter.

Of course the host is on one particular side of the fence. Which side? Doesn't matter.

(Why can't the media find people who are reasonable and not automatically on one side or the other?)

For the second night in a row this fellow was talking about a current hot topic. Which topic? Doesn't matter.

I think he went two nights in a row on purpose so that people opposed to his opinion could rally against him on the second night. And rally they did.

What was most striking about the opposition was their perplexing inability to grasp the meaning of the words used in the debate. They simply did not understand what the language meant. They had no foundation to stand on and ended each call exasperated and throwing insults at the host because he did not agree with them.

And there is a lesson in all of this for the rest of us.

Without a solid foundation under us we are lost. We cannot advance, we cannot change as we want to. We have to keep up with a standard that is set by other people, and the bar is always being raised.

It does matter.