Posted by
Doctor Demex on Saturday, September 30, 2006 3:13:27 PM
Most liberals fool themselves into thinking they appear intelligent by
assuming the intellectual mannerisms of people rumored to be superior
intellects. College professors are supposed to spend their time
thinking, but most of them embrace ideas that are proudly unhinged from
common sense. Intellectually lazy liberals hitch their brain
wagons to the same mules that teach college. More accurately,
perhaps, they embrace any new idea that comes along to show that they
think outside of the box, even when the idea is outside the box only
because it escaped before it could be completely formed. Liberals
point to their college degrees like Muslims point to the Koran: to end
arguments. Even liberals who don't go to college can adopt
collegiate pseudo-intellectual trappings to make themselves appear to
have intelligence, like little girls putting on makeup to look older in
the hope that it will also make them look wiser. But the purpose
and effect of putting on makeup is not to look wiser, but to look more
attractive. And to a liberal, looking good feels better than
looking smart. That is, unless you're a 50-something hippie with
long gray hair and wire-rimmed glasses and Birkenstock sandals and . .
. .
Santayana's observation that those who cannot remember the past are
condemned to repeat it is not lost on conservatives. Liberals
don't care about the past. They claim to care only about the
future. But in doing so they try to draw a straight line from
just one point (the present), or they argue that straight lines are too
simplistic to have any value. [Not to mention that straight
seems to be a dirty word to liberals.] True, some of today's
older and wiser liberals look back to when their history began (the
Vietnam war) as a warning to the present. But the true relevance
of Santayana in this case is that today's liberals don't remember what
Vietnam was about, if indeed they ever knew at all. They were
wrong about it back then and are wrong about it now. Their
opposition to the war was based on their narcissistic aversion to
risking death, or otherwise having their lives disrupted, for any
reason whatsoever. Their heads hurt when they were asked to
contemplate whether there was any cause worth dying for.
If you dress like a CEO, people will think you are a CEO or at least
qualified to be one. If you act like a college professor, people
will think you are brilliant like a college professor.
Fortunately, more people are learning to distinguish the subtle but
vital differences between being brilliant and merely being
scatterbrained.