Posted on 09/30/2014 5:44:30 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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Lou
Excellent column!
I was struck during the Netanyahu speech at the UN yesterday with the extreme banality of members of the audience. it was as though many were herded into the auditorium from a local WalMart. More than half of the seats were empty demonstrating an extreme indifference to the central issue of the day. Those who remained were not so playful as Obama at a memorial service but it was close.
I came away with the impression that these are remarkably stupid people with no effective understanding of the world. This is the conundrum in which we are trapped. We appoint leaders on their ability to toe the party line, not on their innate wisdom. Deranged children are running the world.
That is an awesome article. Thanks for posting.
Indeed.
well said. well read.
thanks
teeman
Thank you for pointing out this phrase. It is a perfect example of satire. Greenfield uses this device routinely to demonstrate the absurdity of liberal thinking. Here at FR we are currently engaged in a boisterous confab about the nature and appropriate use of satire. It has spilled over into this thread for some very obvious reasons.
Another brilliant example of satire.
I'm thinking you missed the entire point of the column.
It is a brilliant piece of work.
What specific mistakes were Tyson's defenders defending? Did I miss some Tyson news?
Great essay by Greenfield - he helps us to think clearly. As for your comments about the UN - wow, I’m afraid that about sums it up.
Well said!
From the article:
Science is a rigorous way of making fewer mistakes. It’s not very useful to people who already know everything. Science is for stupid people who know how much they don’t know.
I recall a study done on the attitudes of people with various levels of intelligence.
What struck me was this:
Stupid people were too stupid to realize that they were stupid. They thought they were smart.
Smart people were smart enough to know how limited their knowledge and intelligence were. They were humbled by how little they knew.
That truism shines throughout this marvelous essay.
Like art, science is inherently subversive and like art, when it’s restricted and controlled, it stops being interesting.
The true scientist realizes that, the more you learn, the more there is to learn. There is never an end to science - science is never settled. When you come to regard science as settled, you are no longer a scientist, you are a stagnant pool, no longer in the main current.
That was one of the best reads I’ve had all week. Please add me to your ping list.
The fool thinks himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
My question is why are deranged little children allowed to run the world?
My answer- I think it has to do with what is in their FBI/CIA folders in the principal’s office. Their particular pecadilloes are how they are controlled into doing what the powers that be want done.
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