One of the most perplexing—and sneakily vital—questions of our time
is: Why are so many so-called “intellectuals” so astoundingly ignorant
and unwise?
This is a question that must be honestly
addressed if the West has any chance of pulling out of the downward
spiral in which it now finds itself.
A major reason is that
intellectuals aren't really intellectuals, they're pseudo-intellectuals,
and tend to be impressed with themselves, believing they know best how
to run everybody else’s lives. So, as members of an elite, a chosen few,
a nomenklatura, they have a strong proclivity towards tyranny.
Many
disdain patriotism, believing that an enlightened mind should endlessly
search for the good in societies other than their own. Many like to
appear smart. Many like to appear as if they care about the “big
picture” (globalism, etc.).
In reality, they don’t give a rat’s ass
about anything outside of their own insular, safe, homogenous
communities. And their own station and power. If virtue-signaling was an
Olympic sport, wealthy progressive Americans would own the medal count
in perpetuity. Nearly all of those the media brands as “intellectuals”
or “experts” are leftists, and the vast majority favor big government
and lean towards socialism or even Marxism. The notion that economies—or
anything else-- could work better without their active intervention and
planning is anathema to them.
Many intellectuals have spent nearly all their lives in the ivory
towers of academia and are almost completely devoid of real-world
experience…and therefore common sense. A keen observer once noted that
an intellectual is someone who so prefers theory over experience that he
would sit down on a red-hot stove, twice.
The many decades of
radical indoctrination at America’s colleges and universities, with
radical leftists “teaching” their progressive-leaning students, has led
to a near total lack of diversity of thought, opinion, and independence
amongst the elites that eventually matriculate from these citadels of
higher education into corporate boardrooms, mainstream media outlets,
and government offices. Those that don’t themselves become “educators” that is.
Tragically, this has produced an inbred
mindset just as damaged and deformed as is often the case with the
physical result of incest. The same elites that are so focused on the
benefits of diversity of gender and kink, so PROUD! of every
“alternative lifestyle,” and so welcoming and tolerant of other
culture’s traditions, quirks and nuances, from paganism to female
genital mutilation, lack the courage to challenge—or even discuss-- the
Orwellian groupthink that has overtaken them. Virtually none of them
would risk being seen as “different” in this regard, as there are too many repercussions to come out of this closet.
“Thanks”
to our “intellectuals,” we are reaching Orwellian levels of groupthink
and newspeak. We are heading into Third Reich, Soviet Union, North
Korea, and People’s Republic of ____________________ (fill in the blank) territory.
Charles
Bukowski once stated, “The problem with the world is that the
intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of
confidence.” I would suggest that the truly intelligent people realize how little they know, unlike “the intelligentsia,”
while the stupid ones are often arrogant. In fact, there is an almost
perfectly inverse relationship between how smart one believes oneself to
be and the non-trivial knowledge or wisdom one possesses.
William Butler Yeats once stated what amounts
to a corollary to Bukowski’s assertion: “The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” (See also RINOs
versus AOC, Ilhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, et. al.)
That
seems to me to be the most accurate way to explain what has recently
transpired in the United States…and several other Western nations.
Too
many of our so-called intellectuals are full of passionate intensity.
And too many of our so-called Republicans or conservatives appear—when
push comes to shove—to lack all conviction.
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