I have limited bandwidth, and therefore don’t both with people like George Will or Ted Cruz, both of whom had a really tough time understanding the difference between Hillary and Trump (although Cruz came around once he realized that he was putting his seat at risk, as shown in 2018).
It doesn’t matter. This is why I loathe people like him on our side. We have the best writers, the best minds, the best analysts, the best thinkers, the best debaters because we have the best ideas. They have one thing.. they have the DOERS. And the doers will win. So all of this is BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. I am tired of talking. I am tired of debating. It’s time for action and we just don’t have the guts for it and the other side KNOWS it. That’s why if Biden wins, they will come after the guns. And judging by behavoir this past few months? Our side will hand them over. I’ll make a bet on it now.
I was never much of a George Will fan, but this column is right on target.
My question now is this: If Will can see the emptiness of America’s so-called intellectuals, why can’t he also see that the current domestic troubles amount to an attempt by these same elites to disenfranchise regular working Americans?
The title is right. Critical thinking is not taught any more. Understatement.
Being in the exact same job for 29 years, teaching the exact same maritime rules of the road, to the same age group (18-24), using the same tools (full mission, wrap around ship simulators), I have a unique perspective.
I started teaching in 1991, before anyone had portable electronics. Now everyone, of course, has portable electronics.
The trainees have become too “uninspired” to rely on their memories, their previous training and education, then process their current problem.
I’m telling you... it’s this generation being native to portable electronics. It’s an unintended consequence of all things at your fingertips.
Video game natives, that they are, also establish psycho- bizarre expectations, making simulation training nearly impossible.
While I don’t always agree with George Will. This article is spot on. As for the intelligentsia of today, the majority of the don’t know what they are talking about. They just allow their alligator mouths to override their hummingbird @$$es!!!!
George Will is one of those who cannot think.
So George,
Wjydid you reference 1619 at all?
/@$$hole!
“George Will is unpopular here, but this is a good column.”
The title is true. We were discussing liberal inability to think on an earlier thread today.
But Will has decided to join in with these nob-thinkers.
Will in his senescence is guilty of the same sins he laments here.
Fashioning himself one of the good intelligentsia, he exudes and is consumed by everlasting hate for Donald Trump, who, ironically, seems to be the only one fighting the ignorant crowd.
He has spent five years deconstructing Donald Trump. Were there a statue of him, Will would be the lead on pulling the ropes.
Intelligensia is Einstein, Jefferson, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Feynman, etc.
The left’s share of intelligencia on a percentage base will not even approach two digits.
PING!
George Will needs to look in the mirror.
He himself is the intelligentsia in the article.
Did you get the inspiration for this George when you saw yourself in the mirror?
“””Faculty are outnumbered by administrators, many of whom exist to administer uniformity concerning “sustainability,” “diversity,” “toxic masculinity” and the threat free speech poses to favored groups’ entitlements to serenity.”””
No George, the faculty are willing co-conspirators.
As he is a bona fide member of the intelligentsia I am waiting for George Will to take on the faculty at our colleges and universities who are overwhelmingly leftist in their thinking.
When George Will starts raising hell and advocates defunding of our state run colleges and universities in order to get rid of leftist professors, then I will jump on his bandwagon.
George Will is writing about himself, but is too out of touch to realize it.
Well, at least George’s headline is really really right.
Who put starch into George’s shorts?
I think it was Bill Buckley who said he’d rather be governed by the first 500 people in the Boston phone directory than the faculty of Harvard University.
I told everyone, they don’t have a thinking cap...........