"Intellectuals, according to Mr. Kristof, are people who are “interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity,” people who “read the classics.”
It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
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What is more telling, form was enough to impress the intellectuals, not only then but even now, years after the facts have been revealed, though apparently not to Mr. Kristof.
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The intellectual levels of politicians are just one of the many things that intellectuals have grossly misjudged for years on end............
It would be no feat to fill a big book with all the things on which intellectuals were grossly mistaken, just in the 20th century — far more so than ordinary people.
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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.
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Let's see how AI bobs and weaves his way now, AA. He'll say Buckley was real smart and he agrees with Sowell on that count and then go on to say Palin's a boob and Reagan was Einstein-Hilbert without the Action, and Jesse Ventura for President.
This is a classic red herring, with a huge dollop of Mr. Straman.
So that would make Le Pew the Red Herring.
Mr Straman lives ! !
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