1. Although the Liberal voter loves to claim the title for himself and his elites, awarding the appellation 'intellectual' as something to be proud of is as false a narrative as their dogma, and as are their elected choices.
One need only look at the graduates they turn out, and the foaming-at-the mouth rantings of their tenured staff.
"Professor: Brady's Trump Support Is More 'Un-American' Than Kaepernick" Professor: Brady's Trump Support Is More 'Un-American' Than Kaepernick
“Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them.” George Orwell
The fact is that real Americans, those on the Right, use the term 'intellectual' as a disparaging and less than complimentary term, an identifier of the Liberal dogma-afflicted who will never contradict the collective's talking points.
2. Thomas Sowell, a real intellectual in the positive sense, writes that this intellectual vanguard tends to take the “benefits of civilization for granted.” The “vision of the anointed” lacks respect for the wisdom inherent in experience and common opinion.
Its practitioners value abstractions—dreams for a peaceful, egalitarian world where conflicts have been overcome—over the “tacit knowledge” available to the parent, the consumer, the entrepreneur, and the citizen.
Sowell vigorously defends wisdom—practical reason—against an abstract rationalism that values ideas over the experience of actual human beings. Intellectuals, he argues, are particularly suspicious of the ties ordinary men and women feel to family, religion, and country. They look down upon “objective reality and objective criteria” in the social sciences, art, music, and philosophy. Their “systems” tend to be self-referential and lack accountability in the external world."
"Intellectuals and Society," by Thomas Sowell An Independent Mind
a. And here is an example of one of those 'intellectuals' doing just that:
“And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Obama on small-town Pa.: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia
3. 'Intelligentia' is a Russian term that has made its way into the English, along with agitprop, apparatchik, commissar, gulag, Kalashnikov, nomenklatura, pogrom, samizdat, and vodka. The author of the following essay on 'intellectuals' attempts to explain its meaning....
"Russia has always been a caste society and the intelligentsia was a particular caste, consisting of educated people who did not fit into one of the traditional categories—clergy, nobility, peasants, merchants, or the urban middle class." It defined neither the academic nor the political.
Things have changed.
"Decades of exposure to constant propaganda inevitably left its mark on all but the strongest of intellects. Cut off from contact with the outside world and normal cultural, intellectual, and artistic influences, the Soviet intelligentsia’s tastes were frozen sometime around 1937. " Intelligentsia Elegy
Today's thread will prove the joined-at-the-hip sameness of the above, the Russian 'intelligentia,' and the leaders and followers we call Democrats and Liberals.
And for the very same reason: "...Decades of exposure to constant propaganda..."
One need only look at the graduates they turn out, and the foaming-at-the mouth rantings of their tenured staff.
"Professor: Brady's Trump Support Is More 'Un-American' Than Kaepernick" Professor: Brady's Trump Support Is More 'Un-American' Than Kaepernick
“Some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe them.” George Orwell
The fact is that real Americans, those on the Right, use the term 'intellectual' as a disparaging and less than complimentary term, an identifier of the Liberal dogma-afflicted who will never contradict the collective's talking points.
2. Thomas Sowell, a real intellectual in the positive sense, writes that this intellectual vanguard tends to take the “benefits of civilization for granted.” The “vision of the anointed” lacks respect for the wisdom inherent in experience and common opinion.
Its practitioners value abstractions—dreams for a peaceful, egalitarian world where conflicts have been overcome—over the “tacit knowledge” available to the parent, the consumer, the entrepreneur, and the citizen.
Sowell vigorously defends wisdom—practical reason—against an abstract rationalism that values ideas over the experience of actual human beings. Intellectuals, he argues, are particularly suspicious of the ties ordinary men and women feel to family, religion, and country. They look down upon “objective reality and objective criteria” in the social sciences, art, music, and philosophy. Their “systems” tend to be self-referential and lack accountability in the external world."
"Intellectuals and Society," by Thomas Sowell An Independent Mind
a. And here is an example of one of those 'intellectuals' doing just that:
“And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Obama on small-town Pa.: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia
3. 'Intelligentia' is a Russian term that has made its way into the English, along with agitprop, apparatchik, commissar, gulag, Kalashnikov, nomenklatura, pogrom, samizdat, and vodka. The author of the following essay on 'intellectuals' attempts to explain its meaning....
"Russia has always been a caste society and the intelligentsia was a particular caste, consisting of educated people who did not fit into one of the traditional categories—clergy, nobility, peasants, merchants, or the urban middle class." It defined neither the academic nor the political.
Things have changed.
"Decades of exposure to constant propaganda inevitably left its mark on all but the strongest of intellects. Cut off from contact with the outside world and normal cultural, intellectual, and artistic influences, the Soviet intelligentsia’s tastes were frozen sometime around 1937. " Intelligentsia Elegy
Today's thread will prove the joined-at-the-hip sameness of the above, the Russian 'intelligentia,' and the leaders and followers we call Democrats and Liberals.
And for the very same reason: "...Decades of exposure to constant propaganda..."
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