Wednesday, November 12, 2008

The Danger Of Overrating 'Intellectuals'













How have intellectuals managed to be so wrong, so often? By thinking that because they are knowledgeable — or even expert — within some narrow band out of the vast spectrum of human concerns, that that makes them wise guides to the masses and to the rulers of the nation.But the ignorance of Ph.D.s is still ignorance, and high-IQ groupthink is still groupthink, which is the antithesis of real thinking.
Full Article by Thomas Sowell

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/index.html

Sowell has little to no intellect, just look at the title of his paper, "Overating intellectuals" . ????. Idiots have to have leaders too.

R.I.P. GOP

Beetlejuice said...

Intellectuals are overrated.Most of them lack common sense.

Anonymous said...

That is the dumbest most general statement I've heard in a while Beetle. Thanks for making my day. LOL
R.I.P. GOP

Beetlejuice said...

The "intellectuals" feel that raising taxes is good for the economy. People with common sense know that raising taxes hurts the economy. Intellectuals believe labor unions help people.People with common sense know that labor unions make companies less competitive. An example is the US Postal Service, which may lay off 685,000 because they cannot compete with the free market.There are many more specific examples.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Here's some conservative intellectualism .

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Church_sign_Obama_election_is_sin_1117.html

Think for your self Beetle.

Beetlejuice said...

the "raw story" that's a cute news article,and the point of it is WHAT!?

Anonymous said...

Think for your self Beetle.

Pointless point

Beetlejuice said...

Anon-Don't be a milquetoast,show yourself!

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