Are there too many educated intellectuals in the world?

[Raynine]

Are people with big college educations a good thing? I ask this because I have recently been thinking about a book I read in 2009. The book is Intellectuals and Society by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a black American so that book should have carried a lot more weight than it did especially in these postmodern times. But Sowell’s work, concise, clear and relevant to our time, was treated in academic circles like a diatribe released by what actor, singer and black activist Harry Belafonte, would call an “Uncle Tom” houseslave. Personally, I was impressed by Sowell’s breathtaking intelligence and his influence on my thinking was real and lasting. I have the 2009 edition; it was revised in 2012.

The reason I bring this to light is because of something I noticed years ago that seemed weird. Does anyone remember April Glaspie? Glaspie was George H.W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq in 1990. Bush dispatched her to Iraq to find out why Saddam Husein was massing troops along Kuwait’s border. Glaspie had what most would call a big college education, and she used that education to secure a position as an expert in Arab affairs.

When she got there Saddam told her he was considering taking over Kuwait and he wanted to know what the US would do if he invaded. Glaspie’s highly educated response was dumbfounding. She told Hussien that that the US “has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”. Now Saddam was not an English speaker and Glaspie knew that or at least with all her education she should have known that.

Glaspie returned to the US and Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait on what he interpreted as an ok by the US to take over that country. I know this happened because I saw it happen. One of the major points in Sowell’s book is that intellectuals, particularly highly educated intellectuals like Glaspie, do a lot of damage to society but are never held accountable. Bush and Glaspie are not just responsible for the Gulf War but in all likelihood the Arab Spring that followed. It seemed weird that Bush the elder was pontificating about Kuwait’s invasion as something that “cannot stand” when he and Glaspie brought it about. I saw that happen and neither one of them was ever held accountable for their disastrous incompetence.

Both Bush and Glaspie should have gone to the gallows for their ineptitude because it led to the attack on the World Trade Center years later after George Bush attacked Iraq to rescue his father’s image with the false flag of weapons of mass destruction which were never found. If Saddam ever had any WMD’s he probably got them through secret channels from the US anyway because Iraq was very useful to the US as a counterbalance to Iran which took US hostages.

Now that I think about it Sowell’s book makes a lot of sense and I am going to read it again.

April Glaspie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[excalibur]

Having a college degree does not make someone an intellectual, we see that all around us every day.

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure, along with Clarence Thomas, so naturally the black community does not hold them up as examples of greatness, and instead we get Joy Reid, Cory Booker, ad nauseam.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Are people with big college educations a good thing? I ask this because I have recently been thinking about a book I read in 2009. The book is Intellectuals and Society by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a black American so that book should have carried a lot more weight than it did especially in these postmodern times. But Sowell’s work, concise, clear and relevant to our time, was treated in academic circles like a diatribe released by what actor, singer and black activist Harry Belafonte, would call an “Uncle Tom” houseslave. Personally, I was impressed by Sowell’s breathtaking intelligence and his influence on my thinking was real and lasting. I have the 2009 edition; it was revised in 2012.

The reason I bring this to light is because of something I noticed years ago that seemed weird. Does anyone remember April Glaspie? Glaspie was George H.W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq in 1990. Bush dispatched her to Iraq to find out why Saddam Husein was massing troops along Kuwait’s border. Glaspie had what most would call a big college education, and she used that education to secure a position as an expert in Arab affairs.

When she got there Saddam told her he was considering taking over Kuwait and he wanted to know what the US would do if he invaded. Glaspie’s highly educated response was dumbfounding. She told Hussien that that the US “has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”. Now Saddam was not an English speaker and Glaspie knew that or at least with all her education she should have known that.

Glaspie returned to the US and Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait on what he interpreted as an ok by the US to take over that country. I know this happened because I saw it happen. One of the major points in Sowell’s book is that intellectuals, particularly highly educated intellectuals like Glaspie, do a lot of damage to society but are never held accountable. Bush and Glaspie are not just responsible for the Gulf War but in all likelihood the Arab Spring that followed. It seemed weird that Bush the elder was pontificating about Kuwait’s invasion as something that “cannot stand” when he and Glaspie brought it about. I saw that happen and neither one of them was ever held accountable for their disastrous incompetence.

Both Bush and Glaspie should have gone to the gallows for their ineptitude because it led to the attack on the World Trade Center years later after George Bush attacked Iraq to rescue his father’s image with the false flag of weapons of mass destruction which were never found. If Saddam ever had any WMD’s he probably got them through secret channels from the US anyway because Iraq was very useful to the US as a counterbalance to Iran which took US hostages.

Now that I think about it Sowell’s book makes a lot of sense and I am going to read it again.

April Glaspie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I highlighted your lies so you can go back and delete them.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 directly. You are as wrong as you can be.

 

[Anathema]

It’s not so much that we have too much intelligence, education or intellectualism as it is that we have forgotten that intelligence, when not partnered with wisdom and realism can be extremely ineffective.

I’ve had the pleasure of being around many highly educated and intelligent people who failed because they lacked wisdom or a true understanding of here world actually works.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Are people with big college educations a good thing? I ask this because I have recently been thinking about a book I read in 2009. The book is Intellectuals and Society by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a black American so that book should have carried a lot more weight than it did especially in these postmodern times. But Sowell’s work, concise, clear and relevant to our time, was treated in academic circles like a diatribe released by what actor, singer and black activist Harry Belafonte, would call an “Uncle Tom” houseslave. Personally, I was impressed by Sowell’s breathtaking intelligence and his influence on my thinking was real and lasting. I have the 2009 edition; it was revised in 2012.

The reason I bring this to light is because of something I noticed years ago that seemed weird. Does anyone remember April Glaspie? Glaspie was George H.W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq in 1990. Bush dispatched her to Iraq to find out why Saddam Husein was massing troops along Kuwait’s border. Glaspie had what most would call a big college education, and she used that education to secure a position as an expert in Arab affairs.

When she got there Saddam told her he was considering taking over Kuwait and he wanted to know what the US would do if he invaded. Glaspie’s highly educated response was dumbfounding. She told Hussien that that the US “has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”. Now Saddam was not an English speaker and Glaspie knew that or at least with all her education she should have known that.

Glaspie returned to the US and Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait on what he interpreted as an ok by the US to take over that country. I know this happened because I saw it happen. One of the major points in Sowell’s book is that intellectuals, particularly highly educated intellectuals like Glaspie, do a lot of damage to society but are never held accountable. Bush and Glaspie are not just responsible for the Gulf War but in all likelihood the Arab Spring that followed. It seemed weird that Bush the elder was pontificating about Kuwait’s invasion as something that “cannot stand” when he and Glaspie brought it about. I saw that happen and neither one of them was ever held accountable for their disastrous incompetence.

Both Bush and Glaspie should have gone to the gallows for their ineptitude because it led to the attack on the World Trade Center years later after George Bush attacked Iraq to rescue his father’s image with the false flag of weapons of mass destruction which were never found. If Saddam ever had any WMD’s he probably got them through secret channels from the US anyway because Iraq was very useful to the US as a counterbalance to Iran which took US hostages.

Now that I think about it Sowell’s book makes a lot of sense and I am going to read it again.

April Glaspie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Intellect has to be combined with a creative mind, inventive vision, extreme curiousity and humbleness to be willing to listen to both sides and research facts.

Of course the world needs more intellects. We'd still be rolling a square wheel uphill if we didn't have intellectual capacity.

There is a big different between being indoctrinated and being intellectual.

 

[Woodznutz]

Intellectuals eschew solutions that gets hands dirty. Most solutions will be dirty.

 

[Raynine]

Intellectuals eschew solutions that gets hands dirty. Most solutions will be dirty.

Saddam was quickly hunted down and hung before he could talk. This is how Big intellectuals cover their tracks just like Epstein had to go before he could talk. The inellectuals get rid of the loose ends after the misery they create.

 

[Cassandro]

Anyone who considers himself to be an intellectual is not very intelligent.

 

[Darkwind]

Saddam was quickly hunted down and hung before he could talk. This is how Big intellectuals cover their tracks just like Epstein had to go before he could talk. The inellectuals get rid of the loose ends after the misery they create.

So, he was hunted down for the off chance he'd squeel like a pig, or maybe, and i"m just spitballing here, because he started a ******* unjust war? I don't buy the Embassador screwed up meme.

 

[Oddball]

Are there too many educated intellectuals in the world?​

No.

There are too many over credentialed pseudo-intellectuals, who really don't know their assholes from their elbows, in the world.

I'm here to help.

 

[Dekster]

Are people with big college educations a good thing? I ask this because I have recently been thinking about a book I read in 2009. The book is Intellectuals and Society by Dr. Thomas Sowell. Sowell is a black American so that book should have carried a lot more weight than it did especially in these postmodern times. But Sowell’s work, concise, clear and relevant to our time, was treated in academic circles like a diatribe released by what actor, singer and black activist Harry Belafonte, would call an “Uncle Tom” houseslave. Personally, I was impressed by Sowell’s breathtaking intelligence and his influence on my thinking was real and lasting. I have the 2009 edition; it was revised in 2012.

The reason I bring this to light is because of something I noticed years ago that seemed weird. Does anyone remember April Glaspie? Glaspie was George H.W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq in 1990. Bush dispatched her to Iraq to find out why Saddam Husein was massing troops along Kuwait’s border. Glaspie had what most would call a big college education, and she used that education to secure a position as an expert in Arab affairs.

When she got there Saddam told her he was considering taking over Kuwait and he wanted to know what the US would do if he invaded. Glaspie’s highly educated response was dumbfounding. She told Hussien that that the US “has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”. Now Saddam was not an English speaker and Glaspie knew that or at least with all her education she should have known that.

Glaspie returned to the US and Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait on what he interpreted as an ok by the US to take over that country. I know this happened because I saw it happen. One of the major points in Sowell’s book is that intellectuals, particularly highly educated intellectuals like Glaspie, do a lot of damage to society but are never held accountable. Bush and Glaspie are not just responsible for the Gulf War but in all likelihood the Arab Spring that followed. It seemed weird that Bush the elder was pontificating about Kuwait’s invasion as something that “cannot stand” when he and Glaspie brought it about. I saw that happen and neither one of them was ever held accountable for their disastrous incompetence.

Both Bush and Glaspie should have gone to the gallows for their ineptitude because it led to the attack on the World Trade Center years later after George Bush attacked Iraq to rescue his father’s image with the false flag of weapons of mass destruction which were never found. If Saddam ever had any WMD’s he probably got them through secret channels from the US anyway because Iraq was very useful to the US as a counterbalance to Iran which took US hostages.

Now that I think about it Sowell’s book makes a lot of sense and I am going to read it again.

April Glaspie - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Perhaps the correct solution is to have more college educated people, not fewer. Make it free or near free and more people will do it and then people who have college degrees won't defer so much to their opinions on things.

 

[Raynine]

So, he was hunted down for the off chance he'd squeel like a pig, or maybe, and i"m just spitballing here, because he started a ******* unjust war? I don't buy the Embassador screwed up meme.

It was those darned WMD's! That's why Bush attacked Iraq after 911. None were found but that didn't matter. The cover story that the Bush's took out Saddam for being bad stuck.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Too many undereducated MAGA and progressives

 

[buttercup]

It’s not so much that we have too much intelligence, education or intellectualism as it is that we have forgotten that intelligence, when not partnered with wisdom and realism can be extremely ineffective.

Very good point. I'd go further than that to say that intelligence sans wisdom can lead to terrible outcomes.

 

[Winston]

Having a college degree does not make someone an intellectual, we see that all around us every day.

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure, along with Clarence Thomas, so naturally the black community does not hold them up as examples of greatness, and instead we get Joy Reid, Cory Booker, ad nauseam.

Sowell and Thomas are scum, plain and simple. They are hypocrites, both products of affirmative action. I mean I know it is terrible to say, but yes, both are Uncle Toms. House slaves if you will. They kiss the Massah's ass to protect their position. Those field slaves, **** em. I got mine is their attitude. It absolutely stinks.

I mean Sowell has his finger in the wind. He goes where the wind blows. And Thomas is as crooked as the day is long. He reminds me of the joke about Too Tall Jones. I won't repeat it here.

But yes, a college degree does not make someone an intellectual. I mean we see that today in the executive office. I know at one time the person with the highest IQ in the world was a bike courier in NYC. It might still be true today.

But Sowell, Thomas, and yes Trump. In the end, they deserve sympathy, they really do. Take Trump, the dude is severely mentally ill, like he needs to be institutionalized. Had he not been born into wealth he would be pushing a buggie behind Walmart, talking to himself and panhandling. And that wealth, well that is the thing.

Yes, he has a college degree, from Pennsylvania University, an Ivy League school, but not Harvard or Yale. And yes, he was born into wealth. But not real wealth, and that is at the root of his problems. I mean I have seen it, personally. Let's say tomorrow you win the lottery. I mean the jackpot is huge. Maybe, after taxes, you walk away with a unit. That is two hundred million dollars.

Do you think you are going to move into that neighborhood by Grandfather Mountain, with the air strip and race track? No. You think you are going to be accepted by the real wealthy, the multi-billionaires. No. No, the ultra wealthy are a club and you are not getting a membership.



Trump is poor Chester. He has been his entire life. And it is sad. I feel for him. I really do. But in the end maybe real intellect is knowing who you are, and accepting it. I mean watching him with the billionaires, "how much money did you make yesterday", he asked. I mean damn, it is poor Chester. The whole thing with Musk, flippin sick, really was. I mean you think he gives two shits about you? Well yeah, maybe, if you are worth a hundred billion dollars or so. Otherwise, LMAO, no, he doesn't.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Walter Williams was something else but no sense of common sense balance.

I reminded him once, when he was talking about how well blacks did in the South back in the day, that he would be pushing a broom at George Mason, not a noted economics professor.

Common sense, people, common sense.

He got really mad at me.

 

[Anathema]

Very good point. I'd go further than that to say that intelligence sans wisdom can lead to terrible outcomes.

Exactly. It is only by combining intelligence and wisdom that truth can be found

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

So, he was hunted down for the off chance he'd squeel like a pig, or maybe, and i"m just spitballing here, because he started a ******* unjust war? I don't buy the Embassador screwed up meme.

Mapmakers' Invasion

After World War One, the Allies cut and pasted Kuwait out of the former Turkish Empire in order to limit Iraq's power, economy, and strategic position. Saddam wanted the oil given to Kuwait by the Allies in order to cripple America's proven enemy, Iran.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Perhaps the correct solution is to have more college educated people, not fewer. Make it free or near free and more people will do it and then people who have college degrees won't defer so much to their opinions on things.

Sheepskins Are for Sheep

Even without tuition, the Eweniversity is work without pay. That is the very opposite of being free, and it accounts for the slavishness of students' minds.

 

[sparky]

Are there too many educated intellectuals in the world?​

not really a concern of mine, as i'll never be one of them......~S~