In the summer of 2020, as I was getting into the works of Thomas Sowell, I bought a copy of the second edition of Intellectuals and Society. Ever since, I’ve been convinced that one of the essential drivers of how off the rails everything has become in America, is the contribution to the discourse made by radical intellectuals who are in lockstep with the political and media elites. The “save democracy” mania of 2021 and ’22 that led to the events of ’23 didn’t come from just anywhere and anyone.
I took a good shot at Michael Beschloss last week, and regular viewers of The Generation Report know I have a special disdain for Biden lackey Jon Meacham. In this episode, I profile the contributions of six other intellectuals who everyone should know about. And it’s not because they’re “brilliant.”
Paul Zimmy Finn
This ‘Generation Report’ series of videos looks very interesting. I just subscribed.
Thanks for posting it, Admin.
Intellectuals make decisions like the one Budweiser just made and their response to all the drama that came with it. In national leadership that is frightening. Very saddening to watch. Remember all you have to do is think your a woman and you are a woman according to the so called intellectuals at the higher institutions of indoctrination (learning).
That’s postmodernism in a nutshell: there is no objective reality, just feelz. It’s vittually psychosis. “Nothing is true; everything is permitted.”
“you’re”, Hollow.
Thank you, comrade.
Caught me dang it
Deep Shekels wants you dead, or at the very least brain dead…i.e. enslaved.
They are up the ass deep poisoning our food, air water and minds, leaving little room for escpe. One can not turn on any media without seeing our faith, culture, tradition, race and freedom being debased by Bolshevik operatives and the fact the the party that purportedly represents Conservative America hasn’t made as much as a twitchy eyebrow effort, should tell you all you need to know about the Republican Party of Shit Eating Dogs.
There are no parties representative of the American Nation. It’s elite criminals and the shit eating dogs, all the way down.
Jay Dyer gives a little detail on the subject here:
By 1974…
“The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences.” (Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, p. 324. 1966.)
once upon a short time, not so long ago….some news producers did news…but no more. Deep Shekels sickly bitch, Uncle Schlomo and his news for hire whores done got US all wrapped up in the tediously slow of death mass compliance…but, there for very short time, some news actually escaped from Clown Word Faggot’s grasp.
The Poison Reigns….down.
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” — Thomas Sowell
https://www.wonderfulquote.com/a/thomas-sowell-quotes
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” — Thomas Sowell
“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.” — Thomas Sowell
“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
— Thomas Sowell
“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion.” — Thomas Sowell
Long time reader of Sowell. Notice he doesn’t have to act like an intellectual. He is one, and one of the greatest of our times. Too bad, not enough blacks and all people don’t have enough intellectual integrity to want o be like him.
Could be faulty memory syndrome. Read ‘basic Economics’ 2009-10?
One thing i think i remember.
he Tried to ‘rationalize’ how selling Safety Matches individually made ‘sense’, was ‘justifiable’. Some 3rd World country or another.
Made no sense then. Makes no sense now. Regardless. Could be barter GOLD though. AFTER the Bic™ lighters run out.
He is possibly my favorite mind. Brilliant and insightful.
Where’s Klaus? He’s been too quiet lately. Something’s brewing.
The Devil’s Programmer© and the hated Wallenski are also MIA.
Officially the national hellth emergency ends 11 May 2023.
Auntie fears you are correct, Ice.
The Devil’s Programmer©, Copyright Aunt Acid, 2023.
Relax. They’re busy moving to a more comfy place.
A few weeks ago I started watching well-known and influential “intellectuals” from the 60’s and 70’s in various debates and speeches, guys like Foucault, Chomsky, Buckley, McCluhan, Baldwin, Friedan, et al.
I was stnned by just how thin the veneer of intellectualism actually is. 90% of their schtick was simply their meter, phrasing and tone. There were virtually no serious points made that didn’t exist 200 years ago and most of it was like a Readers Digest version of actual philosophy. They’re magicians doing parlor tricks and they fooled the whole world- at least those who pretended to know what they were talking about- into believing that they were intelligent or insightful.
While I am certain that there are some really intelligent people out there, I’ve met more than a few over the years, there appears to be a top end when it comes to what we are told by popular culture in terms of genius and it isn’t all that high. Maybe in mathematics, I wouldn’t know, but not in the understanding of man, history, philosophy, etc.
We’ve been led astray by effete midwits.
I wanted to be an intellectual when I was twelve because they seemed to exude superior viewpoints. One could, if they spoke well, talk their way to the top of the pyramid.
Watching William F Buckley Jr and Gore Vidal’s multisyllabic mental gymnastics convinced me early on that the only way out of the middle class was to speak with class. Hogtying an opponent in a debate with gentle sophistry didn’t require loud bombast, bulging forearms or incoherent ebonics.
Before I was twenty, I wanted to be Mark Twain; the anti-intellectual. His intelligence was wonderfully nuanced in its simplicity and, like Thomas Sowell, gave no quarter when filleting “intellectuals” to expose their buffoonery.
Sowell’s common sense disdain for ghetto-culture ebonics manifests in his writing; one can’t be intelligent if they insist on sounding stupid. He is my choice for our modern-day Samuel Clements, chastising liberal intellectuals with humorous warmth that has entirely disappeared from media’s preference for attack dog mentality.
For you and HSF. There are not enough true intellectuals. Thomas Sewell is one. You have to be willing to go where the evidence takes you. Not visa versa.
Amen and Amen HSF. Word salad “Experts” that you were told to consider as elite thinker, not true.
“tone…”
“Music, of the spheres-squares-pentagonals & every other geometry” {{& geomancers}} “is the only language – despite what various & sundry Pentecostal-striped nine-taled cats pitch & woo & bury all around the sandbox. It’s the sounds, slight or solid walls, not the lyrics they’re dressed in.”
“led…”
lyrics emitting diodes
That doesn’t let catchers mitts off the hook.
The weather was 80 degrees in Shitcago this weekend . And the yoots came out in force twerking ,jumping on cars and shooting at each other. No doubt a symptom of systemic racism .
The only cure for those “youth” would be youthenasia.
Art Institute of Chicago Attacked by Exuberant Youth
https://www.unz.com/isteve/art-institute-of-chicago-attacked-by-exuberant-youth/
First comment:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/art-institute-of-chicago-attacked-by-exuberant-youth/#comment-5916676
The rest of the comments are worth time:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/art-institute-of-chicago-attacked-by-exuberant-youth/#comment-5916790
Oops . . . youthAnasia, not “E”.
“Oops . . . youthAnasia, not “E”. ”
…Surely they have legions of young and gullible drone operators, too?
Democracy is not what America is about. Gang rape is democracy. Rioting and looting is democracy.
We are a Constitutional Republic where the rule of law is dictated by the principals outlined in the Constitution based on the rights of the individual. Mob rule is contrary to the rights of individuals.
Yet we democratily elect those representatives by voting. We are also not a true democracy, but a limited democracy. That means check and balances are built into the system like the electoral college and certification. Certification was put in to question the results of an election, not to be a rubber stamp.
Cheating and subterfuge (J6) are not democracy, as we have recently seen.
“we elect”
Uh, yeah.
URGE SEE THIS!! Martin Armstrong 50-minute interview.
The best way to save our democracy would be for Democrats to stop cheating in elections. That destroys democracy, which will eventually destroy our Representative Republic!
Then quit trying to Federalize our elections when in total power stealing democracy from the states. That would destroy democracy.
Also quit trying to make liberal territories and cities into states with no corresponding territories and cities. That would destroy democracy.
Then don’t pack the courts with judges with all like opinions, we need both sides or democracy will de destroyed.
Next limit elections to people that have a stake in our nation, like citizens, non citizens and even our enemies should never be able to vote as they don’t have our nations intest at heart. Also secure our boders so they can’t destroy our democracy.
You see just because you can vote does not mean you have democracy if you can only vote for one party, the party in power. That is not called democracy, but dictatorship.
Fuck democracy. Give us liberty instead.
Libertas Velmors.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy” (Georgetown University Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1966.)
Saving Democracy buy burning to the ground a Democratic Republic that was conceived and constructed by men of honor , integrity and genius !
The foundation of our American Republic took the positives of democracy and harnessed the negatives with the branches of government Executive , Judicial & Legislative then added the electoral college .
The electoral college prevents the most corrosive power of pure democracy: Three wolves and one sheep voting on what’s for dinner !
Sadly the intellectual leftist ideology of today is being thrust into the heart of the republic in such a manor as to appear for the good of all . As the masquerade melts away it’s true tyrannical nature is revealed.
As the totalitarian socialist evade any and all legitimate challenges ultimately by force , well you get what we’ve got right now !
A leftist quagmire with various political lunatics at the controls !
This will end badly for all !