What an energy and a newness if liberals and conservatives together would make cause together, that we do not want to choose the hard way but must decide to anyway. And then Paul grows lyrical: God chose what is foolish to show the wise little acts of compassion that violate our learning. God chose what is low and despised in the world to reduce to nothing the things that are low and despised, in the form of Jesus of Nazareth, and the rulers of the world are not finished with him yet.