Scatterbrained

Gilda Radner said:
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity."

To that end, I thought I'd share with you a line I read in the book Further Down The Road Less Traveled by author M. Scott Peck, that will get you thinking, as it did me and some of my friends.
He was talking about confused people and the not knowing syndrome that can drive many people to seek external help (or instead, go stark raving mad). He's not referring to the simple 'not sure if I should wear these shoes or that pair of shoes' type conundrum, but more the nagging "What the fuck is it all about anyway?" type confusion...you know, The Big Picture , The Meaning of Life. Some of which can be brought on by unresolved issues from our past, or recent events that quite literally turn ones world upside down and leave you without answer. His theme was that it is a blessing to be confused (as Jesus himself once said 'Blessed are the poor of mind') and continues to argue, quite convincingly, that it is the confused that seek and look for answers, perhaps sometimes all of their lives, but they are the people who constantly shift their ideas, thoughts and what they know, realizing that they really know very little.
That's when he interjected the line which really gave me pause for thought. He said 'Virtually all the evil in this world is caused by people who are absolutely convinced they know what they are doing.'
I found this remarkable. If you think about it, he's right. Every dictator, every politician, down to the moron that starts a fight in a bar... are more often that not absolutely convinced they know what they are doing (I can't remember that last time I heard any kind of retraction from one of these types). If this is truly the case, I suggest that all us "dazed and confused" people out there rejoice in the fact that we don't know shit.