Posted on 12/12/2020 10:25:52 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Sometimes the French to get it right.
The Bastille.
Next: D.C. and the media.
No mercy.
Brooksie implies that lack of connection to the “expert class” as a negative. It’s not.
My family comes from the New York metro area, and many of them reflect the kind of arrogant bigotry seen in this article. I’m now living in the Alaska bush, near the Arctic Circle, working as a teacher in a public school. The problem is much larger than Brooks unwittingly portrays.
Rule by technocrat elite is found everywhere, even out here, where flyover country means the cargo jets carrying goods from east Asia to eastern North America. (The sky is so clear and the air so still you can see those jets 33,000 feet above you and hear a distinct roar of the engines.) In my school district, we have a whole bunch of very well educated and solidly credentialed people who consider themselves experts in everything from web page design to curriculum development, and in each case, the results are distinct failures due to the hubris on the part of those managing the effort. Some of them are decent people, and some them are untrustworthy a**holes, but all of them express contempt for those who don’t have the degrees or certificates that indicate expertise. I would guess with a high degree of certainty that every town and country and state across the country have these kinds of people in the schools, local government, media, and corporations. I’ve found in my own experience that the boomer version of this kind of elite is sometimes great to work with, but the millennial version is as close of communist apparatchik as I’ve ever seen.
I worked in the private sector for 20 years before becoming a teacher, and the difference between the two is extreme. In a school district, a simple decision can sometimes take years, and it’s possible for one person with a bureaucratic kingdom to stop progress completely. It’s astonishing. These are the folks Brooks labels experts.
Most of the people in our town are Alaska Native, and they treat the experts by ignoring them, laughing at them to their faces when necessary, and slowly and carefully undermining what they see as stupid edicts from far away. We need to do the same thing.
I work with an uber-progressive social studies teacher who told me yesterday that he wanted 106 Republicans in the House kicked out of office. I looked at him and said, “In American culture, we don’t do that during political disputes.” He was a little shocked having his critical theory crap thrown back in his face.
Want to tax my guns into oblivion? “My culture respects people protecting their individual freedom.”
Want to tell me what pronoun to use? “My tradition uses specific pronouns for males and females, and forcing me to do otherwise is an act of colonization.”
I’ve also loudly told students that the only thing that they need to learn about slavery is that Americans abolished it after tens of thousands of years of tolerating slavery. The Native elders here have taught me something. When outsiders come in to tell you how to live, the only polite response is to tell them to go to hell.
I also love using progressive cliches against their own arguments. How Alinsky of me. :)
*AMEN AND BUMP*
I have met several of those coastal elites. They believe the the starting point for food is the grocery store.
I hate to break it to Mr. Douche, here, but those of us that live in the Flyover States can very EASILY live without those ‘elites’ living on either coast, THINKING that they run our lives. It’s laughable, really.
They are going to be very sad when their food and water run out, while we in The Heartland just smile and wave - sittin’ here on this sack’a seeds!
What a bunch of self aggrandizing, clueless snots.
I don’t know, but I’m an expert handloader, killer of game, and I can do a winning job tuning a racecar.
Do you suppose Brooks can even dress a fish? If we let the ‘experts’ have control, this might be a skill necessary for survival. Mostly, the experts are idiots. Re: John Kerry and Joe Biden as examples.
These people can live a mile from a ghetto and never have the ghetto experience.
Apartments with doormen. Personal cars or limos to get them around. Staff to shop for them. Their kids go to private schools. They visit each other in the doorman secured apartments.
Their lives are insulated and isolated from the real world.
If truckers...”rural Americans”... would stop bringing food into New York, aholes like Brooks would starve to death....no loss!
GO CHANGE A TIRE, mr. Expert.
sittin’ here on this sack’a seeds!
Wildwood Flower.
Name a blue city that is thriving. I’ll wait...
Exactly.
Caliph Baraq in both Chicago and DC, LOL
I want the “expert” class to leave me the f alone. That being said, would love to meet Brooks to discuss his ideas.
About 15 minutes before we landed, he remarked with surprise, "you've got a lot of water here." I then told him, "there's only one natural lake of size here in Texas, the rest are manmade. Goes to show that Texans are smarter than you give them credit for."
I prefer to be sitting on a sack of tomato seed, or seed potatoes, but, yes, LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUc3X0-nMhw
“A lot of people in the expert class live in blue cities who are thriving,”
I think he means “A lot of people in the expert class live in blue cities which are burning.”
Brooks is on my Airport List.
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Yes they do and they are looking for any excuse to ramp up and kill
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