I like this writer’s rant, but he says “gone are the days of intellectual liberalism.”
When the hell was that? When was leftism “intellectual”? Leftism was, and still is, modeled on the dream of a romanticized utopia that always becomes a dystopia. What is intellectual about trying the same ideas over and over and over again only to achieve the same miserable result?
Using big words and utilizing silky turns of phrases in a discussion is not intellectualism when what you’re advocating for, ultimately, is communism. Communism is not elegant.
I would call these people overeducated morons.
The rest of the rant is good-
what modern identity-obsessed progressivism has now become: everyone is a white supremacist, and everything is white supremacy. Racism is everywhere in every quote, in every headline, and in every policy. White people are inherently evil — unless they flash their LGBT get-out-of-privilege free card. “Hate” is unacceptable, unless you’re hating people you deem to be “haters”, in which case, it’s totally reasonable.
Gone are the days of intellectual liberalism, replaced, sadly, with social justice warrior illiberalism that traffics exclusively in immutable characteristics and perceived sociological privileges and disadvantages.
Once you understand the basis of this flawed, closed-minded ideology, DeVega’s anti-intellectual screed makes more sense. He, like many progressives, simply can’t comprehend the idea that voters of all races might appreciate Trump’s support for economic policies that benefit the working class. How could that be? After all, according to DeVega, Trump is an “overt white supremacist.”
Because progressives can’t win in the marketplace of ideas, they resort to shutting down debate and shaming via shrieking pejoratives. They employ the same strategy over and over again: declare conservative beliefs outside the realm of acceptable political discourse, then identify them personally as people of bad character.
It happened at the Emmys. It’s happening on ESPN. It’s happening everywhere. It’s the progressives’ weapon du jour.
Liberals don’t understand that there is a big difference between knowledge and wisdom. I have known some highly educated professionals that didn’t have the smarts to open a box of cereal! And then again I’ve known and worked with some high school grads that had fantastic engineering skills.
Libs like to think a liberal “farts” degree makes them far more intelligent than most. I usually won’t even get sucked into a conversation with people like that.
I am rereading The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk again so I can relearn and hopefully pick up more of what it’s like to be a real conservative that I might have missed reading it before. I need to reread Russell Kirk every once in a while just to stay sane.
I think a lot of the problem with the concept of “liberal intellectualism” has to do with a hijacking of the narrative. In the past, even more recently than the classical period, education did have a liberal aspect, and it was encouraged. By going beyond boundaries, those boundaries were pushed and expanded. Alas, currently, to deviate from the strictly taught dogma of today earns one the derision pointed out in the referenced article. I think Galileo and Giordano Bruno were seen as liberals. There are many others, and I like to think of myself in that number. But not by the standards of what a liberal is today, at least as defined by the mobsters of fascist-antis (antifa). Now-a-days fascists call themselves liberals, and they attempt the ability to define and classify others. I consider myself much more liberal than them. I am privileged (!) to not have their prejudiced constraints. Cultivation of the mind is the right and duty of everyone. I support “educational freedom and intellectual progress.” And I don’t give a damn what they may think of me.
Leftist thought was
ALWAYS
make-pretend ” intellectuality ”
It never had any grounding in reality
It was always make-believe
as if humans live in a vacuum of
auto-egalitarian thought.
These utopian ideas are nice to think about.
But all this type of thought is incongruent with
HUMAN NATURE !!!
Face it
None of this idealistic SHIT
is possible because of
HUMAN NATURE.
Anyone who thinks that
humans will live in complete compatibility like
bees in a beehive or
anta in an anthill
Does not understand
HUMAN NATURE
You could start with trying to understand
the unexplainable conflict between
Cain and Able
Which is not understandable although there was
CRIKME band PUNISHMENT.
The left is a very primitive warlike people. They have nothing to do with civilization or civil discourse. They are gone.
That’s why it’s a mental illness
Soon We’re all just gonna have to each find a corner to face , and remain speechless to avoid anything at all !!!
Be the straight man among a bunch of drunks.
THEY think they’re profound.
To you it sounds like slurring, clucking, and gurgling incoherence.
That is the essence of “intellectual liberalism.”
Drunken, stupid, drugged, self-righteous ignorance.
Foolishness propounded by conniving thieves to fool the fools into parting with their Liberties, Freedoms, and Goods.
izlamo delenda est …