Posted on 01/02/2005 6:21:56 AM PST by Diago
Lordy, most lefties I know wouldn't understand nuance if it slapped 'em in the face; they can't make relationships between points a, b, and c; have no idea there's consequences to actions; lastly, they don't take to change very well.
And they call us dumb and rigid!
Yep! There's a ton of difference between intelligence and wisdom. A person can have both, but they also have either one without the other, or neither.
The so-called intelligensia often have intelligence but no wisdom. I know quite a few people around my university who fit that bill. They could do well on an IQ test, and they fully know the basics in their field, but their judgment is somewhat lacking.
These people are usually left-wing, hostile to Christianity, arrogant, and convinced that we'd live in a utopia if only they were put in charge.
I'd much rather go out and have a few beers with someone with little formal education but a well-rounded view of the world than some egghead who thinks he's part of some sort of elite.
From "The Architecure of Modern Political Power"
"The real task, Hitler told Wagener, was to realize the socialist dream that mankind over the centuries had forgotten, to liberate labor, and to displace the role of capital. That sounds like a program for the Left, and many parties called socialist have believed in less."
"...a movement to distort the foregoing reality to create a pseudoscientific rationale for mass collectivization and for the superiority and truth of collectivist ideologies (particularly, socialism)."
Pseudoscientific as in Global Warming or the continuing battle cry of the left so-called intelligentsia – “Kill the Greedy Corporations.”
[Politics, for lots of people, is not evidence based........] and that is really dangerous!
One thing the intellectual elite is really good at is turning a phrase so that they can defend their view in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. One example is that clever fraud by the republicans resulted in Bush's victory in Ohio and Florida. The only states that mattered and that Rove's genius was in figuring out what states a big win would be needed in. And they can turn a blind eye to Washington state where democrats are doing the very thing that the accuse republicans of doing.
the difference between a trained intellect and an indoctrinated intellectual is a gulf so vast and deep it surpasses description.
There is a word "antilligent" to describe this phenomenon. More pithy thus more fitting.
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