http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k6KUDv1wzraWhwlBt1
“Intellectuals” are some of the dumbest people you will ever meet, the things they believe would make your head spin.
The most dangerous people on the planet are “intellectuals” with soft science degrees from Ivy League schools, unfortunately that includes the Bushes.
The last good President we had graduated from Eureka College.
"That is one of many reasons why intellectuals are not taken as seriously by others as they take themselves."
Zing!!!
I remember Truman being dismissed as a a mere haberdasher by his harshest critics while I also remember his exit being the most principled leave of office ever, where today the leeches cling as tenaciously as roaches inured to the constant swats refuse to die, armoring themselves long past the point reason could possibly justify.
For Truman it was but a hat, for the rest it has become a costume ball where all vie for the grand prize.
And then theres Biden's comments about how FDR went on national television in response the the great stock market crash of 1929.
Excellent column by Dr. Sowell, the man who should have been our first Afro American president instead of the pseudo-intellectual lightweight who will be. I believe the great majority of the voters who elected Obama along with what appears to be a filibuster proof Senate will be sorry that they did by this time next year, but by then the damage will have been done. And believe me there will be damage aplenty.
I may not be all that smart, but I’m smart enough to know that anything Dr. Sowell has to say, you can take to the bank! :)
B. Hussein Obama is going to fail and fail miserably, no matter how hard the MSM tries to prop him up.
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 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.
I work in a Ph.D.-rich environment at my company. I observe this groupthink every day. They are no doubt brilliant people and they are world-class experts in their chosen fields. But they can be some of the dumbest most helpless fools outside of their narrow field.
A better term, I think coined by Sowell, is “the chattering class” — people who are more impressed by someone being articulate than by his actually having good ideas. They are more impressed by people who are skilled in getting in a cutting phrase, than by somebody who actually gets useful things done.
When Hayek was in America the last time before he passed on, at an appearance in Washington, he was asked afterward what he thought America’s biggest problem was. His answer was one word: “intellectuals.”
Memo to Nick Kristof:
I’ll bet you a lunch at the Four Seasons that President Bush has read a greater number of “serious, intellectual” books during the past eight years than have Senator and Mrs. 0bama combined.
You know I love Sowell.
Everything he writes is brilliant.