Odd hearing a lib elite admit what we've been saying all along....
Anti-Trump New York Times columnist David Brooks shocked political commentators on Twitter when he admitted he and the so-called "elite" have used self-serving tactics to maintain power and a sense of moral superiority over the Trump supporters they detest.
"I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we're the bad guys," Brooks wrote in a column Wednesday.
"Over the last decades we've taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out," Brooks wrote of the liberal elite in America. The column detailed how the "educated class" imagine themselves as the "forces of progress and enlightenment" to appease their own egos, as part of a broader tale that paints them as enlightened and Trump supporters as bigots and fools.
Brooks pointed out that in the media world that was once a working-class profession, Ivy League and other elite-level college graduates have come to dominate major newsrooms.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/anti-trump-nyt-writer-shocks-column-bashing-elite-self-dealing-jerks-were-the-bad-guys
Quote from: Solar on August 13, 2023, 10:19:44 AM"Over the last decades we've taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out,"
Brooks wrote of the liberal elite in America.
The column detailed how the "educated class" imagine themselves as
the "forces of progress and enlightenment" to appease their own egos,
as part of a broader tale that paints them as enlightened
and Trump supporters as bigots and fools.
Brooks pointed out that in the media world that was once a working-class profession,
Ivy League and other elite-level college graduates have come to dominate major newsrooms.
That's why I call them "academics," and not "intellectuals."
They often are astonished at "why are current events not conforming to my theories?"
The obvious answer is, their theories are wrong!
Academics (sometimes) study the real world and try to notice trends.
Regular people ARE the real world! They LIVE the trends!
When a trend starts to happen, the people who are living it notice first.
The academics are usually the LAST people to realize that anything is going on!
Quote from: je_freedom on August 17, 2023, 07:39:47 PMThat's why I call them "academics," and not "intellectuals."
They often are astonished at "why are current events not conforming to my theories?"
The obvious answer is, their theories are wrong!
Academics (sometimes) study the real world and try to notice trends.
Regular people ARE the real world! They LIVE the trends!
When a trend starts to happen, the people who are living it notice first.
The academics are usually the LAST people to realize that anything is going on!
That is the Truth!
These "Bubble Dwellers" never see the real world, they only see stats presented by other bubble dwellers, who've never even talked to a real human being before.
Their work is peer reviewed by others seeking a Govt paycheck if they affirm the Marxist dogma of the day.
Quote from: Solar on August 18, 2023, 05:24:57 AMThat is the Truth!
These "Bubble Dwellers" never see the real world, they only see stats presented by other bubble dwellers, who've never even talked to a real human being before.
Their work is peer reviewed by others seeking a Govt paycheck if they affirm the Marxist dogma of the day.
I just came across this video. (14:54)
It talks about how many, if not most,
scientists are pressured to falsify their results
to conform to their institutions' dogmas.
https://youtu.be/2mWwXO_guHk
When you go there, click on "SKIP ADS" to see this video.