Posted on 07/30/2014 8:24:22 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I love smart people but despise arrogant people.
Got it.
This horse’s patoot should be the poster boy for values-free elitism. He would be the first one to pull the rope on the guillotine used to provide “The Final Solution” to faith in anything but the State.
They're about in the same category as people you tell you how honest they are, or how much integrity they have.
That's it right there. I would not classify Tyson as a nerd. I would classify him as a preachy and arrogant know-it-all.
I’ll never understand why any nerd or geek would identify with the Left.
Neal who?? Seriously, I remember the old Cosmos program with Carl Sagan and loved it. Was looking forward to the new one with Tyson until the first episode when Obama did the intro for it and haven’t watched it since. Another example of the politicization of science for social reasons. If I’m wrong about the show now I’d be willing to listen if someone disagrees, but now, nope.
Neil is pretty decent compared to assholes like Bill Nye and his NPR ilk. Neil’s “Star talk” podcast is funny and educational, and pretty much devoid of political commentary (excluding his comedian co-host/sidekick, who often digresses, but is sometimes funny). Neil is a good dude, but he does support anthropogenic global warming bullshit for some reason.
Well said.
I think too often though we confuse smart with arrogant. What happens is we’ve put up some really bad candidates who are, quite frankly, stupid. We dismiss the intelligent out of hand.
BUT ... as you infer, the smart/arrogant combination is nauseating.
I’ve always preferred to listen to Michio Kaku. He has some serious brain power but doesn’t ooze arrogance that way Tyson does.
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Because it's the radical chic thing, and for the nerd/geek, acceptance.
I’ll never understand why any nerd or geek would identify with the Left.
Because it's the radical chic thing, and for the nerd/geek, acceptance.
1)Why should any geek or nerd be tempted to be "radical chic?"
2)Once one gains acceptance, one is by definition no longer a nerd/geek . . . correct?
Hashbrown selfie.
I’ve read a couple of articles where Tyson mocks those who question global warming and evolution. I don’t mind Tyson taking positions different than mine. But I do mind the mocking. That is not a trait of a good scientist.
It seems to me that Tyson is trading scientific objectivity for hip popularity with the left.
‘My great fear,” Neil deGrasse Tyson told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in early June, “is that we’ve in fact been visited by intelligent aliens but they chose not to make contact, on the conclusion that there’s no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”
HAHAHAHA, oh, Dr. Tyson, you are so funny and original.
“Beam me up, Scotty, there’s no intelligent life down here.” Bumper sticker from the early-1970s forward.
Thanks for posting this! I find it very affirming.
A few weeks ago, I made a snide remark about Tyson and was called a Flat-Earther by another FReeper!
I did respond, but only to say that the new “Cosmos” was introduced by Obama.
I did not receive a reply.
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