Knowledge vs wisdom and a disturbing skit....

I was puttering around KBW blogs and came across this brouhaha which made me realise that some people have different qualities. Some people have;
Knowledge:Organized or contextualised information which can be used to produce new meanings and generate new data.
While others have;
Wisdom: the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight.
( Feel free to pick your own definition from the myriad that are available on-line).
Knowledge does not mean that someone will always make the right decision, it merely means they have the tools to make the decision at their fingertips but doesn't mean they will. I don't see myself as an avatar of wisdom, I have more than once made mistakes; but I pride myself on the ability to learn from them. What I find astounding is how the arguments articulated by some of the people on this and other comment boards makes you wonder if they ever stepped into a university lecture room or even a high school classroom! Add to that heated passions and you have a recipe for chaos.
Knowledge and passion do not always make for good reasoning but Wisdom and a level head more often than not do, that is one thing I am thankful for learning after reading some of those arguments.
Another lesson that I learnt is that the hand that rocks the cradle indeed rules the world, some of the arguments being articulated slung were clearly learned at mother's bosom or on daddy's lap and knowledge has been used to rationalise and sanitise them. But at the end of the day whether you call it feculence or excrement, it still smells just as bad. One thing that education is meant to help us to do is to examine the beliefs and values we grew up with and realise their relevance or obsolescent nature, not rationalise all of them. Because we have to admit that not all the beliefs and values we have grown up with are positive.
At times we learn more by losing gracefully than an ugly win. As for the arguments, I am not going to point out who I think has knowledge or wisdom, while there are some characters there who lack both; feel free to make that decision for yourself.

I was flipping across channels the other day and came across this skit on one of the WWE wrestling shows.Call it over-reaction but I think that this skit is somewhat racist because it's just reinforcing the usual stereotypes about black males. But on the other hand this is a culture where many black males are proud to refer to themselves as thugs and doing time is often seen as a badge of honor so what do I know? Plus it is a well known fact that the owner of the WWE Vince McMahon holds nothing holy, he has even used the death of one of his popular wrestlers to set up a plot-line that has run for several PPVs. He was going to use a bi-sexual wrestler to set up a plotline that was to have a love triangle between 2 male wrestlers and a woman, so I guess I shouldn't get that flustered because with Vince at the helm it was inevitable!