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-Land of the Free
The Left is too smart to fail
2018-07-27
From 2013.
[SultanKnish] The infrastructure of manufactured intelligence has become a truly impressive thing. Today as never before there is an industry dedicated, not to educating people, but to making them feel smart. From paradigm shifting TED talks by thought leaders and documentaries by change agents that promise to transform your view of the world, manufactured intelligence has become its own culture.Manufactured intelligence is the smarmy quality that oozes out of a New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, Frank Bruni and the rest of the gang who tell you nothing meaningful while dazzling you with references to international locations, political events and pop culture, tying together absurdities into one synergistic web of nonsense that feels meaningful.

There's a reason that there's a Tom Friedman article generator online. But it could just as easily be a New York Times article generator that sums up the hollowness of the buzzword-fed crowd that is always hungry to reaffirm the illusion of its own intelligence.

We all know that George W. Bush was a moron. And we all know that Obama is a genius. We have been told by Valerie Jarrett, by his media lapdogs and even by the great man himself that he is just too smart to do his job. And it's reasonable that a genius would be bored by the tedious tasks involved in running the most powerful nation on earth.
Posted by:746

#9  Smart people want to hear all sides of each issue in order to discover flaws in their own views, and to improve them.
Those who try to suppress debate and urge their followers to listen only to their side prove their own stupidity by doing so.
And this is the mantra of the left today!
Posted by: Daniel   2018-07-27 22:45  

#8  The left too smart to fail?

No, the Pubs seem to lack the cojones to uncover the left's failures and corruption. What!? Do you think some of them might be a part of the failures, corruption and cover-ups?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-07-27 11:51  

#7  Real intelligence is the product of constant debate.
Nah. In my lifetime the major production of "constant debate" has amounted to ever more egotism and discord. The most intelligent people I've met are the ones who pay close attention and who have a very loose grip on their own cherished opinions and biases.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-07-27 11:38  

#6   True intelligence knows how to conceal itself in plain sight. There is probably a lot more of that in the world than the vast majority even suspects could exist.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-07-27 11:35  

#5  Credentials in "Field A" do not imply Competency, even basic Competency in "Field B"...
I remember a webpage discussion where a retired USAF colonel opined that "...NCOs, such as senior US Army sergeants, were unfit to lead men in combat because (quote) they were too close to their men (un-quote)..." I may trust anything he said about flying a big aluminum bird, but at that point his opinion on other matters, well...
Posted by: magpie   2018-07-27 09:42  

#4  
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913   2018-07-27 08:19  

#3  It's going to be interesting to find out how many on both sides are prepared to 'die on that hill'.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-07-27 07:59  

#2  Cyril Kornbluth
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-07-27 06:47  

#1  Hardy the Marching Morons John C Campbell had in mind. But far more dangerous to society in terms of the influence they weild in terms of public opinion.
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2018-07-27 06:33  

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