Wise Guy?

Looking at the final speech of the chacham it shows that he actually wasn't that wise, in my opinion. To me, he was just creating an illusion by making everyone think he was wise by giving them a reality check and making it seem as though he was better than them. He tried to be better than the others' philosophies. He would give them a reality check, but once they gave him a reality check, he was done. 

All the chacham wanted was to rule and that was all that mattered. He didn't care about wisdom or qualities. He just wanted to show everyone that he was better and he should rule. If people didn't have wisdom, they were nothing to him or anyone else. It didn't matter who you were or what type of person, if you didn't have wisdom, you didn't matter. 

In the beginning of the sefer, he started off saying that there is a time for every action and every emotion. Some people try to understand the world, but they can’t. He thought that he could figure everything out. He wanted to recognize the reality of the world. He said that it's not all about man. G-d creates things and you can't fix things that He broke. He said that life will never be perfect.

The chacham had a problem with the fact that man can't see other man's punishment if they do something wrong, so man can just do all evil because they are never punished. When the Yirei Elokim came and responded to him, he went ballistic. The yirei elokim told him that G-d has a system and after death people are held accountable for the actions they took in their lifetime. When the chacham heard this he went crazy. He said that the system is flawed and that men will just sin all the time because they can't see other man being punished.

He concludes with his final speech. In his final speech he says that man will get no where in life if they have no wisdom. He says that man doesn't know what will happen next and there is no one that could tell him what will happen next. He wasn't willing to take the leap of faith. He says that man should fix the problem before it even becomes a problem. He finished by saying that a wise person should be leading them and if a wise person isn't leading them, the world will be ruined.