I stopped reading when he called them the intellectual class. They are not intellectuals. Their policies are destructive and a threat to the entire human race, nothing intelligent about that. They are correctly called the ruling class, with its inherent nepotism. America wanted a king instead of being responsible for their own lives.
Free healthcare and monthly checks all around. It certainly doesn’t take an intellectual to figure out folks want to sit at home and get paid out os someone else’s wallet.
...the intellectual class. They are not intellectuals. Their policies are destructive and a threat to the entire human race, nothing intelligent about that.
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Take it in the sense of Taleb’s ‘Intellectual Yet Idiot’.
In this usage, an intellectual is someone whose work is primarily done sitting at a desk, reading, analyzing and writing or disseminating information. Has little or nothing to do with intelligence, per se. Has zero to do with morality or ethics.
Our vast cadre of Information Technology workers mistake the arcane for the intelligent. So, they align themselves with the academics and others who manipulate data and massage messages.
For a point of light in all this darkness, I consider the democratization of computer tech (IT) via apps and built-in processes plus the ubiquity of marketing/branding expertise to be positive. People who understand how propaganda and computer code work are less likely to be swayed by those who declare themselves masters over these fields of endeavor and then conflate that with mastery over all of society.
So, you are correct about destructive threats, but have misclassed ‘intellectual’ with intelligent.