Essay:Liberal Intellectualism
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It is interesting to observe how the liberal ideology, and liberal arguments, appeal most to educated, informed persons who are short on intellectual achievements of their own. Put another way, the biggest advocates of liberal arguments are the intellectual wannabees or pseudo-intellectuals.
Examples of not-quite-intellectuals who promote liberal arguments include:
- privileged youth, weak student at Yale, no original work
- privileged youth, poor graduate student, tried to claim credit for the internet
- may have virtually flunked out of the pre-med program at Georgetown, never released his grades, failed to earn a degree at Oxford, no original work or ideas
- Antioch College graduate (geology major), his work is riddled with contradictions
- dropped out of a graduate math program, passed over initially for Law Review, passed over for Solicitor General in 1993,[1] plagiarism later found in his work[2]
- described as a "whiz kid," he wrote or did nothing of significance, mishandled Vietnam War
- speaks very few languages well for a diplomat, had no insights or noteworthy work, mishandled Vietnam War and Soviet Union
- repeatedly passed over for the Nobel Prize due to a lack of achievement, allowed multiple leaks from Los Alamos
- famous for making a few guesses about linguistics some of which turned out to be partially correct. He has not done any work in linguistics in 30 years and just spends his time promoting left-wing politics outside his supposed area of expertise.
- Did not receive his high school diploma until he was 61 years old. His later work on vitamin C was considered unscientific and outright quackery.
- claimed to be proving the completeness and consistency of math, a goal Godel proved was impossible. Advocated unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Please add other examples.
Praised Heaped by Pseudo-Intellectual Liberals on Each Other
It is remarkable how pseudo-intellectual liberals praise each other as geniuses. Examples include:
- Bertrand Russell declaring that the most intelligent man he ever knew was John Maynard Keynes
Please add other examples.
Motivation
There are two primary motivations for the liberal advocacy by pseudo-intellectuals:
- it is easier for them to obtain acclaim from the liberal press than from real intellectuals
- they genuinely fail to understand certain abstractions, such as:
- how cutting taxes often increases government revenue (Laffer Curve)
- how guns save more lives through deterrence and prevention than they harm
- how childbirth has a positive effect on health, and thus abortion harms health
- how cease-fires always help a determined opponent in war
- how arms limitations treaties always helps a dishonest adversary
- they expect superficial, flawed logic to persuade others, such as:
- claiming that inequality in outcome implies discrimination
- demanding equal treatment for genders in all situations
- claiming that the gay agenda is like the civil rights struggle by African Americans
- insisting that government can reduce poverty with more programs
Please add to these lists.
References
- ↑ Tribe admitted he was being considered, but he was not nominated. "Under Clinton, Crimson tide washes over Washington," The Boston Globe (Mar. 4, 1993).
- ↑ "Joseph Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard, presents overwhelming evidence to support his claim that Tribe's 1985 book, God Save This Honorable Court, was largely copied from a 1974 book called Justices and Presidents by the University of Virginia's Henry J. Abraham. Bottum's case rests on the relentless citation of example after example where it is clear that Tribe has copied both the substance and, in many cases, the exact wording of Abraham's text. Most damning is Tribe's repetition of errors, like slight misquotations of original sources, in Abraham's book."[1]
