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| How did it happen that professors became dumber than truck drivers? |
| 2024-03-03 |
| [REGNUM] Billionaire Trump is supported primarily by proletarians. The US Federal Election Commission provides a breakdown by profession of donors to the Trump and Biden campaigns. And it turns out that among the first categories such as truck drivers, construction workers and farmers are in the lead. But the current president is supported by psychologists, social workers, writers and professors with their "labor" dollar. Moreover, the most glaring gap in indicators is precisely in the last group - 93% of professors will donate to Biden, but only 7% will donate to Trump, respectively. Both Western and domestic liberals will, of course, perceive these data with deep satisfaction as evidence that ignorant and backward people, of course, vote for "right-wing populism." But this is evidence of something completely different - the separation of intellectuals from common sense and their merciless struggle against it. In the 18th century, when the current forms of various political teachings were born, there were people who understood that unbridled skepticism and criticism would not lead to good. And one of their leaders, the Scottish thinker and priest Thomas Reid, developed the philosophy of common sense. He argued, for example, with one of the founders of modern liberalism, John Locke and his follower David Hume, whose conclusions literally destroyed the world. For example, Hume wrote: "The intensive consideration of the various contradictions and imperfections of the human mind has so influenced me, has made my head so hot, that I am ready to reject all faith, all reasoning, and cannot recognize any opinion as even more probable or plausible than another." That is, we already find here the entire postmodernism of our time, denying any unambiguous judgments and the very concepts of true and false. Reed, seeing this danger, believed that one should not break away from certain basic ideas given to everyone, which indicate that at one time or another I am talking with a real person and we both live in a really existing world that functions according to certain laws. The point is that this is not rationally provable. Therefore, giving yourself over entirely to "mind games" is dangerous. It is necessary to adhere to what has been called "common sense" for centuries. In English this concept is referred to as common sense. Reed and his like-minded people believed that the perception of the surrounding world by a simple, inexperienced person is quite reliable. The philosopher was convinced that in matters of common sense, "the educated and the uneducated, the philosopher and the day laborer, are on the same level." Based on this, his follower James Oswald, in his work "An Appeal to "Common Sense" for the Defense of Religion," argued that every person has innate primary instinctive truths. These include equally both conviction in the reality of the external world and faith in God. And they don't need any justification. On the contrary, any adequate thinking must initially be based on them. And by the way, this was the case for centuries, until, starting with Rene Descartes, the "professors" began to question everything except the fact that they personally exist because they think. Meanwhile, from simple common sense, from those very primary sensations, there follows a lot of things that are absolutely unacceptable to left-liberal professors. This is not only a belief in God, but also the conviction that there are only two sexes, that a man cannot be the wife of another man, that migrants should not impose their customs on the locals. For the bearer of common sense, this does not need proof. These are obvious things that are simply stupid to think about. Yes, this is a paradox - stupid thinking happens. And this is precisely what the modern liberal professorship not only demonstrates, but imposes. Therefore, truckers have no choice but to bring their oily bucks to billionaire Trump, who simply looks like a man, talks like a man, and, based on this, they hope that he will finally act like a man. But stupid intellectuals do not want to understand that the democratic system itself was initially based precisely on the presumption that both the "philosopher and the day laborer" have the same picture of the world. Naturally, one understands it more deeply, the other more superficially, but they agree on the basic values. Otherwise, universal equal voting turns into absurdity. Or into manipulation... One example of stupid thinking is the statements that are so popular among domestic liberals: "Democracy is a procedure," "Democracy is institutions." And it is known from whom it comes. From one of the most famous "professors" - Immanuel Kant. Recently, the governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, was mocked in various liberal public pages for saying: "Kant, who was born here, has almost a direct relationship to the global chaos, the global reorganization that we are now facing." But Kant, indeed, has the most direct relation to it. And by the way, to the crisis of democracy too. Well, read what old Immanuel wrote: "The problem of creating a state is solvable, no matter how shocking it may sound, even for devils (if only they have reason). It consists of the following: "Thus arrange a certain number of rational beings, who collectively need general laws to maintain life, but each of which secretly wants to evade them; organize their structure in such a way that, despite the clash of their personal aspirations, the latter so paralyze each other that in the public behavior of people the result is the same as if they had no such evil aspirations." This problem must be solvable." Now just use your own common sense. Agree, this is nonsense - the result of evil impulses will never be good anyway. But since the time of Kant, liberals have worked hard to destroy the foundations of the basic principles of common sense, turn people into selfish and materialistic devils, and then somehow organize them so that they get a welfare society. And it seems that the last bearers of America's common sense - farmers, truck drivers and builders - are seriously tired of these manipulations, and they simply want to bring the liberal professors back to reality.] |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #11 To be fair, a number of truckers (Independent especially) are rather intelligent people who have a wanderlust or a sense of duty (Transport for disaster relief for example). Two characteristics sorely lacking in pop access higher education facilities. Hellmon, just handling regulations and performing Land Nav, piloting and maintenance, especially in foul conditions, eliminates most people. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-03-03 20:29 |
| #10 It takes a lot of effort to make yourself that stupid. |
| Posted by: Too Old To Work 2024-03-03 19:15 |
| #9 Something about an old saw: "Those that can't do, teach"! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-03-03 14:07 |
| #8 #7 Yes, but most of them don't make the grade. And they enthusiastically sabotage their betters. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-03 13:24 |
| #7 Grom, my point was that we NEED STEM. But we don't need Gender Studies, BIPOC Victimization Studes, etc. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-03-03 13:03 |
| #6 ^I could go with 90% of STEM profs disappearing. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-03 12:56 |
| #5 If all the professors (except STEM) magically disappeared, the world would say "Huh?". If all the truck drivers disappeared, the world would starve. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-03-03 12:53 |
| #4 The true question becomes when have truckers not been smarter? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-03-03 11:20 |
| #3 Once the "schools" started paying foobaw coaches 7 figures, there's no way the faculty was going to settle for a ratty tweed sport coat salary. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-03-03 08:05 |
| #2 When they stopped the old system of shifting out the less competent through hard academic rigor and going to a system of credentialing for cash. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-03-03 07:25 |
| #1 IMO professors became dumber than truck drivers when they started paying professors real money - attracting people for whom research and schoolarship is NOT a vocation. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-03 00:53 |