…or, is that an oxymoron?
1.Now, before Democrats/Liberals attempt to bask in the glow of the term ‘intellectual’ remember that the Left turns the meaning of all sorts of terms inside out. Do you really believe that ObamaCare’s ‘Affordable Care’ was actually affordable???
"...the exchanges are on the brink of collapse. Major insurers are quitting, premiums are skyrocketing, enrollment is below expectations, and the administration is taking increasingly desperate measures to paper over the problems. By this time next year, the exchanges could be out of business."
Read more at: More Duct Tape Won’t Save Obamacare’s Collapsing Exchanges
2. How about their use of the term ‘healthy’?
"Cosmo Magazine Runs Series Of Obese Women On February’s ‘This Is Healthy’ Cover
Cosmopolitan is featuring multiple “plus-size,” “fat” women in a magazine issue that commends every body size as “healthy.”
Cosmo Magazine Runs Series Of Obese Women On February’s ‘This Is Healthy’ Cover
Cosmopolitan is featuring multiple “plus-size,” “fat” women in a magazine edition that commends every body size as “healthy.”
dailycaller.com
3. Liberals have given real life meaning to Orwell’s ‘Newspeak’….. ”propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings” Definition of NEWSPEAK
Now…..to what sort of individuals does the term ‘intellectuals’ apply?
4. Modern intellectuals, Sowell writes, have a “vision of themselves as a self-appointed vanguard, leading towards a better world.” They lack respect for the wisdom inherent in experience and common opinion…. an abstract rationalism that values ideas over the experience of actual human beings.
Intellectuals, he argues, are particularly suspicious of the ties ordinary men and women feel to family, religion, and country. They look down upon “objective reality and objective criteria” in the social sciences, art, music, and philosophy. Their “systems” tend to be self-referential and lack accountability in the external world. See Intellectuals and Society, by Thomas Sowell
Based on this understanding, using the term ‘intellectual’ no longer carries quite the luster. Perhaps it should be applied to Liberals.....who certainly aren't 'liberal.'
1.Now, before Democrats/Liberals attempt to bask in the glow of the term ‘intellectual’ remember that the Left turns the meaning of all sorts of terms inside out. Do you really believe that ObamaCare’s ‘Affordable Care’ was actually affordable???
"...the exchanges are on the brink of collapse. Major insurers are quitting, premiums are skyrocketing, enrollment is below expectations, and the administration is taking increasingly desperate measures to paper over the problems. By this time next year, the exchanges could be out of business."
Read more at: More Duct Tape Won’t Save Obamacare’s Collapsing Exchanges
2. How about their use of the term ‘healthy’?
"Cosmo Magazine Runs Series Of Obese Women On February’s ‘This Is Healthy’ Cover
Cosmopolitan is featuring multiple “plus-size,” “fat” women in a magazine issue that commends every body size as “healthy.”
Cosmo Magazine Runs Series Of Obese Women On February’s ‘This Is Healthy’ Cover
Cosmopolitan is featuring multiple “plus-size,” “fat” women in a magazine edition that commends every body size as “healthy.”
dailycaller.com
3. Liberals have given real life meaning to Orwell’s ‘Newspeak’….. ”propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings” Definition of NEWSPEAK
Now…..to what sort of individuals does the term ‘intellectuals’ apply?
4. Modern intellectuals, Sowell writes, have a “vision of themselves as a self-appointed vanguard, leading towards a better world.” They lack respect for the wisdom inherent in experience and common opinion…. an abstract rationalism that values ideas over the experience of actual human beings.
Intellectuals, he argues, are particularly suspicious of the ties ordinary men and women feel to family, religion, and country. They look down upon “objective reality and objective criteria” in the social sciences, art, music, and philosophy. Their “systems” tend to be self-referential and lack accountability in the external world. See Intellectuals and Society, by Thomas Sowell
Based on this understanding, using the term ‘intellectual’ no longer carries quite the luster. Perhaps it should be applied to Liberals.....who certainly aren't 'liberal.'