Thomas sowell in his 2009 “intellectuals and society”, distinguished between intelligent people (intellectuals ) who produce products , provide services and solve problems and intellectuals who just peddle ideas. The latter promote ideas for which they are never held accountable, which are not based on logic, evidence and disciplined an…
Thomas sowell in his 2009 “intellectuals and society”, distinguished between intelligent people (intellectuals ) who produce products , provide services and solve problems and intellectuals who just peddle ideas. The latter promote ideas for which they are never held accountable, which are not based on logic, evidence and disciplined analysis. These latter intellectuals ideas are filled with arrogance, self congratulation and narcissism. So on the one hand we have a man like elon musk who is launching satellites and then we have a huskster like Ibrhim X kendi and CRT.
Orwell said that some ideas are so preposterous that only intellectuals would believe them
The problem is that the state and tax
Money is being used to subsidize a whole cadre of intellectuals who produce nothing useful or meaningful for society
All the universities have gender studies depts and students can get guaranteed student loans to attend these institutitons and get degrees in useless fields
The answer : no tax payer funding of education at any level
We have state subsidized bad ideas being created by the largely nationalized and socialized higher educational establishment. We have an entire cadre of Midwid so-called intellectuals who are studying things like gender studies at mid rate and third tier colleges . These people are getting Federally guaranteed student loans to study this nonsense. On some level many of these people realize that they have no prospects to ever really make a name for themselves and so in order to distinguish themselves they have to become ever more radical and lunatic and fringe in the way they present their ideas. These ideas do tremendous damage to our culture when they diffuse into the general population and get picked up by politicians. It’s similar to the way Keynesianism got picked up by the politicians in the first half of the 20th century. Keynesianism gave politicians an excuse to destroy their own currencies in the name of “progress” When really it was just the financial equivalent of witchdoctoring.
Thomas sowell in his 2009 “intellectuals and society”, distinguished between intelligent people (intellectuals ) who produce products , provide services and solve problems and intellectuals who just peddle ideas. The latter promote ideas for which they are never held accountable, which are not based on logic, evidence and disciplined analysis. These latter intellectuals ideas are filled with arrogance, self congratulation and narcissism. So on the one hand we have a man like elon musk who is launching satellites and then we have a huskster like Ibrhim X kendi and CRT.
Orwell said that some ideas are so preposterous that only intellectuals would believe them
The problem is that the state and tax
Money is being used to subsidize a whole cadre of intellectuals who produce nothing useful or meaningful for society
All the universities have gender studies depts and students can get guaranteed student loans to attend these institutitons and get degrees in useless fields
The answer : no tax payer funding of education at any level
Separation of education and state
We have state subsidized bad ideas being created by the largely nationalized and socialized higher educational establishment. We have an entire cadre of Midwid so-called intellectuals who are studying things like gender studies at mid rate and third tier colleges . These people are getting Federally guaranteed student loans to study this nonsense. On some level many of these people realize that they have no prospects to ever really make a name for themselves and so in order to distinguish themselves they have to become ever more radical and lunatic and fringe in the way they present their ideas. These ideas do tremendous damage to our culture when they diffuse into the general population and get picked up by politicians. It’s similar to the way Keynesianism got picked up by the politicians in the first half of the 20th century. Keynesianism gave politicians an excuse to destroy their own currencies in the name of “progress” When really it was just the financial equivalent of witchdoctoring.