PROMETHEAN ANTAGONIST

The washed up former journalist, Katie Couric  recently made known her disdain for those simpletons who support Trump and dare not grovel before the intellectual brilliance of a contrived mind-caste.  My first exposure to the “pseudo-intellectual” was in Eric Hoffer’s brilliant analysis in his book, “The Ordeal of Change.”

There is a consistent pattern of people in history who fancy themselves to be “intellectuals” who come up a bit short in genuine scholarly insight.  Many public school teachers and most journalists will pontificate under the delusion that they are intellectually on par with truly great thinkers. So it is that we are daily chastised for not adhering to the standards that common control freaks have set for us.

Most intellectuals expand their areas of inquiry beyond the arts and social sciences and direct considerable attention to politics, both practical and theoretical. When laying out their “plans” for how the rest of us should live, they often reveal a disdain for common people.  

Intellectuals can fall anywhere on a political spectrum.  Certainly most academics in today’s colleges are intellectuals with decidedly left wing values.  Like most socialists, the upper echelon of the Nazi party was full of mystics, philosophers, artists, poets, and intellectuals. .  Intellectuals’ political views are more often than not, radical.  Their personal discontent inevitably shows up as a strident desire to remake society.

It can certainly be argued that intellectuals have been directly or indirectly responsible for several incidences of mass carnage in history.   In George Orwell’s novella, “Animal Farm,” the pigs are the intellectuals, and they run the show.  The role of common citizens is to just obey and accept their role as lowly fodder for the latest cultural revolution or experiment in owning nothing and being happy. 

As already noted, among the mind-caste are plenty who want to join the club, believing themselves to be great thinkers.  Journalism is full of these phony elitists who look down their nose at the great “unwashed masses.”  In our own time, most intellectuals (and their cheap copies) suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Nothing will piss off the arrogant elite more than a crowd of thousands wearing MAGA hats —  people who can fix cars, build houses, and drive trucks.

The current administration of mouthpieces for Obama’s third term is full of pseudo-intellectual elitists (eg. Anthony Blinken) bringing ruin to our country.  It’s no coincidence that the bureau-intellectuals among them have never held real jobs.  They’ve always been “public servants” to a public they have never served. 

The current political turmoil that dominates most of the West is not so much a conflict between right and left but more specifically, a conflict between common citizens and the elite “thinkers” who once again seek to establish themselves as rulers of a new world.

…fuck ‘em.  

# posted by Promethean Antagonist @ 10:58 AM