evidence: This is serious stuff! Benjamin Franklin said many years ago, [...] So it is today, perhaps more true than when Franklin warned us of ignorance, that while we are saturated by information on the Internet, talk radio and late night TV, we know less and less about what truly matters. We may be full of minutiae. We risk losing sight of common sense and our rights. We have little sense of the central issues of our time and our community. Time and place. These are what give us a sense of belonging so we may not be enslaved.