Posted on 12/16/2010 3:34:54 AM PST by Scanian
The most dangerous of hypocrites come from the middle class. These are the middle-class "intellectuals" who openly despise other members of the bourgeoisie. They are ubiquitous in academia, the arts, and in much of the mainstream media. They are smugly satisfied to bite the cultural hand that feeds them -- a hand that rarely retaliates.
The Tea Parties have begun the arduous process of taking back one portion of our society, the state, from the pseudo-intellectuals who have overwhelmed our political ranks. If Western culture is to survive, however, the middle class must also recapture the educational systems, the media, and the entertainment industries that produce and promote these parasitic "elites." We can, and we must, challenge these wannabe bluestockings at the cultural, as well as the political, level.
I have explained elsewhere the dangers that bourgeois "intellectuals" pose for Western culture. In this article, I want to focus on some examples of the dissimulation of these evangelists for the beau monde. Understanding the forms of their hypocrisy is a vital step in saving our culture.
Attacking the aristocracy and the priestly class (as opposed to the "bourgeois church") is suddenly so 18th century. Today, we are "tolerant" of religion, and nobody cares much about an almost nonexistent aristocracy (instead, we gossip about middle-class millionaires like Angelina Jolie or Brett Favre). Middle-class culture and "bourgeois institutions" have ended up as the whipping boys for the intellectual snobs.
Mauling the middle class is a relatively new phenomenon in the West. Historically speaking, it is brand-new in the United States. Allan Bloom, in The Closing of the American Mind, claimed, "Americans ... do not naturally apply the term 'bourgeois' to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The article is referring to Lenin’s “useful idiots” - this isn’t a new phenomena, but it is getting worse...
“The Tea Parties have begun the arduous process of taking back one portion of our society, the state, from the pseudo-intellectuals who have overwhelmed our political ranks. If Western culture is to survive, however, the middle class must also recapture the educational systems, the media, and the entertainment industries that produce and promote these parasitic “elites.””
This is true. However, they had better do a better job than Jim DeMint, who has just caved in (http://nationaljournal.com/member/whitehouse/gibbs-blasts-demint-for-attempt-to-punt-on-start-20101215) to the PelosiReidObama Communists/Social Democrats and allowed them to pass all these evil bills (START, omnibus spending bill) that will be VERY DIFFICULT TO RESCIND OR ANNUL.
IMHO “taking over” academia will take too long. The “professors” know it and snicker in their sleeves. We need to “bypass” them altogether. Home schooling, new colleges and other systems of “higher learning” can be deployed quickly. When the only youth they get to indoctrinate are their own offspring they will quickly become irrelevant.
The article is referring to Lenin’s “useful idiots” - this isn’t a new phenomena, but it is getting worse...
“IMHO “taking over” academia will take too long. The “professors” know it and snicker in their sleeves. We need to “bypass” them altogether. Home schooling, new colleges and other systems of “higher learning” can be deployed quickly. When the only youth they get to indoctrinate are their own offspring they will quickly become irrelevant.”
Your solution makes perfect sense. A movement to start a new private university in every state is definitely in order. For the elementary, middle school and high school would setting up a school under the magnet school option work?
“We live in an age of hypocrisy, from politics to the “Piss Christ,” from the lavish lifestyles of the eco-warriors James Cameron and Al Gore to Queer Studies (but no prayer) in the classroom. We cannot begin to understand American elitism until we grasp its hypocrisy — and the contempt it holds for the middle class”...
I totally agree with you.
Teachers would have to earn their living based on results like the rest of the citizens
“IMHO “taking over” academia will take too long....”
....it must begin with de-funding state universities that teach Leftist thought...next, the students themselves are changing the academy....they are not signing up for classes in useless courses like “Women’s studies” like they once did....why go in student loan debt for a degree like that?
....my wife is a composition professor in the English dept...her sections always fill....literature sections are struggling because the kids don’t major in English any more...the Lefty senior lit faculty sees the writing on the wall and is terrified...they know that no English majors means no work for them.
Why do they need composition classes in college? Isn’t 13 years of intense composition education in the K-12 public schools enough time for the NEA/PTA and their state/local puppet organizations to teach the kids top notch composition skills ;)
The Bourgeoisie represent a bulwark against random change, a buffer against whimsy. That is why marxists despise it so and consider it a far more insidious enemy than the Capitalist class. It is also no coincidence that it has been the target of the Obama administration’s wrath.
However, he and his international socialist handlers misread the American landscape. The entrenched Middle Class is the soul of the Tea Party movement that just sent socialism spinning off to the boneyard.
It is that “bourgeois” inertia that will save our republic.
I've had high school interns who, when it came to writing up the results of their work with me, gave me... high school level writing, which is simply not publishable quality. They need far better writing skills if they want to enter a profession where writing (and publishing) is crucial to one's success.
Because they don't have offspring?
When I first heard them called "effete intellectual snobs" I had no idea it would turn out to be so literal.
“IMHO “taking over” academia will take too long. The “professors” know it and snicker in their sleeves. We need to “bypass” them altogether. Home schooling, new colleges and other systems of “higher learning” can be deployed quickly. When the only youth they get to indoctrinate are their own offspring they will quickly become irrelevant.”
Good higher education schools are out there, we just have to empower and support them.
My Alma mater is Hillsdale College. One of the very best out there IMHO.
That’s one thing. The other is to get involved in education, be it tutoring or however.
Who do you think does the real heavy lifting at the college? Hint, it ain’t the professors.
You mean like the college history professor who has pictures of Che Guevara, Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky on his wall, marches in campus protests in his beard and peasant cap, yet makes a six-figure salary, lives in a funky restored Victorian on the edge of campus, and drives a Beemer?
..you nailed it!...and here’s the funny thing...they don’t call it remedial English...that might hurt someone’s self esteem....so instead, they call it ‘developmental English’...same thing goes on over in the Math dept...basically it’s prepping the kids to tackle college level work....boy oh boy, back in my day if you weren’t prepared for college work they would flunk you out!...now days they can’t have that....schools get funding based on head count don’cha know!
We began exploring the parallel track private sector concept for professional CEU’s about 3 years ago. It was last fall that the university caught wind of our project and we began to talk about developing 2 of her classes into a video/online format as a test bed for class delivery.
It’s been an interesting road with some complications and difficulties, but we proceed. Traditionally these classes are supposed to be classroom hours (post grad) and we have had to negotiate with several professional boards to give this a try. The national testing standards have been recently revamped and the equipment is… well, quite expensive. Also we’ve done this with no government grants or loans which we were encouraged to get. Only some software was afforded us by the university (albeit expensive software).
I know I may catch some grief about working from within the system and profiting from it, although we see it as a positive on several fronts. For us it’s a great opportunity for us to introduce some conservative values in a field where pampering is the default action, because… sometimes people just need to “pucker-up.” It also reduces operating cost for the state and (if expanded) will produce income for the university. …And we love it. We hope we can export these video to other states in the next few years and we should be doing our original private sector work inside of 3 years.
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As a side note: I just returned from the Christmas pageant at our public elementary school and they didn’t leave Christ out of the program. There were references to God and Christ in the music as well a few religious themed jokes from the emcee. We had angels on stage and even one adorning the top of the Christmas tree. -- Did I mention I live in California?
I wonder what Ward Churchill drives?
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