[Tolik]

I think that intelligentsia’s advanced proficiency with words tilts the balance between the words and action. The words are extremely important in human life, but not self-sufficient without action. Operating exclusively in the realm of word constructs skews their worldview from the real-world to fantasy-world, from how it is to how it should be in the ideal world.

Looks like this tendency is common among all liberal arts professions such as journalism, arts, acting, social studies, etc., not just the university professors. Common sense that represents the action side of human life gets neglected in favor of wishful thinking.

It is interesting that such thinkers (very popular at FR) as Victor Davis Hanson, Lee Harris, Mark Steyn often emphasized this trait of Islamism: living in the fantasy world of their ideology instead of the hard earned reality, and supporting their fantasy ideology with oil money gifted by mother nature and developed by the hated West, instead of supporting their grandeur wishes with the hard labor of their own. At the same time the Left demands no less than Utopia level perfection from ourselves: when quick and unbelievably successful two wars in a short time are still quagmire to them, when nothing short of the proof beyond a reasonable doubt is acceptable to them as proof of guilt of the enemies who build in deniability into their actions to begin with.

This maybe explains the Lefts opposition to America’s bringing a muscular reality check to the sick Mideast, their strange affinity to people who would be their mortal enemies if the Left did not loose common sense. If left alone the Left would quickly disarm us and leave totally defenseless against any enemy.

It seems that we are at the same time in conflict with our own fantasy Utopists on the Left, here and in Europe and fantasy Islamists across the sea. And as conservatives we want to conserve our reality for our kids.

[cornelis]

To some degree the future exists in the form of hope and desire, both for the left and the right, for Hanson and Steyn. Throughout history, that hope comes in two distinct forms, one which thinks of it as immanent, the other as transcendent. Fancy words, I suppose, but that's what they are called. The Marxist, for example, has an immanent hope for a Utopia in this world. The Christian, for example, a transcendent hope for a Utopia in another, across the grave. This distinction is popularly ignored. It can be understood by reading about Socrates, or can notice it in the difference between medieval and renaissance culture.

You can also see why this distinction is important, for example, in some of the "realism" of the right--, in Fukuyama's immanent marxian conservativism.

[Comintern]

If you think about it, It all stems into D&D. Wisdom vs Intelligence. If you are a priest then you are very Wise. If you are a Wizard then you are very Smart.

Any Ways, They both be considered, Geniuses. Both apart of the Psyche. We tend to forget one more area of the Psyche, ONE center of things. One with great Charisma. One with great charisma sees things completely neutral. They understand both Radical views. Yes, If you are smart or wise, you are a radical. Charisma is either, great looks, and you get along with everyone, or, and I repeat, or, you are Incredibly smart and wise, and you understand all view points and you fit nowhere. If one has either physical charisma, Strength and Dexterity combined, or mental charisma, Intelligence and Wisdom combined they are the complete center of society, They care for all and resent all in unity. These people cannot agree with anyone, they are lost. They go to neither heaven or hell, they aren't Liberal or Conservative. They are the Independents out there, the ones who do not really care. They are bored by Moral Debate so they get high, or, meditate.