Bottom line first?
OK....there is no such thing as a modern industrialized society in which everyone can or will be materially, or in any other way, "equal."
It is one of most basic of Leftist lies.
("Lie" means that they know it is untrue, yet advance same for their gain.)
Try to accomplish "equality" and you wind up with a society in which more folks are on food stamps than are gainfully employed in full time jobs.
Oh...wait....."Latest Obama Outrage: More People on Food Stamps Than Working Full Time" http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article41331.html
1. Hegels complaint about the flaw in abstract thinking: it cannot conceive of a handsome murderer.
Or a fluent, well-spoken liar?
And that brings us to the intellectuals.
One of their gifts that allows them to be opinion-makers is that they are glib, having a smooth fluency that makes what they say seem natural, even true.
2. Perhaps 'liar' is too strong a word. Perhaps, instead, there are certain possibilities that the intelligentsia cannot even acknowledge as possibilities, because doing so would risk their entire world-vision. And, of course, they cannot conceive of same as possibilities, well then, how could they try to test them empirically?
a. Foremost among the fearful propositions is one that explains the disparity of income and wealth among people.
What is the basis of the 'wall of separation' in the minds of intellectuals between inequality of wealth and income, and the following inequalities: crime, violence, alcohol intake, and other social pathologies. Could it be that there is, actually, no separation, and all related, as causes and as results?
3. Let's say that group 'X' has higher income or higher some other achievements than group 'Y." Intellectuals tend to transform that fact into this: group "X's" good fortune is, in reality, group "Y's" grievance!
a. In viewing society through this magic prism, intellectuals are able to produce the scenario by which group "X" has acquired its wealth by taking it from group "Y"!
OK...here is where the glib use terms like "exploitation," or "profiteering," or "fraud" as the explanation for the economic disparity.
It seems that "X" took "Y's" resources!
b. Where is the consideration of the fact that there is no evidence that "Y" was better off before "X" arrived?
c. Or consideration of evidence that "Y" became demonstrably worse off after "X" left the vacinity?
d. And, while there is no evidence of "X" made "Y" poorer, there is often actual evidence that "X's" presence kept "Y" from being even poorer....and this is disregarded.
4. Imagine if one accepted the possibility that one group might just be higher achievers than another!! Why, the very idea would fly in the face of a view that all folks are actually equal, the same, veritable duplicates.
And make no mistake, that is the essence of Liberalism. But to consider that the lagging group simply has to work harder....well, if you tell them that, why would they vote for you?
Or make you into their 'golden calf'?
a. Further, it deprives the intelligentsia of the fable that they are fighting on the side of the angels, and against the forces of evil.
The above based on chapter four of Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Race."
5. An actual example? Sure...Michael Ornstein's "Ethno-Racial Inequality in the City of Toronto" claimed that "the Japanese are among the most privileged groups in the city" because they were more successful economically that either other minorities there, or the white majority.
http://www.isr.yorku.ca/download/Ornstein--Ethno-Racial_Groups_in_Toronto_1971-2001.pdf
What makes this a stunning example of Liberal intelligentsia insanity is the facts of the documented history of anti-Japanese discrimination in Canada, including the fact that people of Japanese ancestry were interned during WWII even longer than the American Japanese were.
Young and Reid, "The Japanese Canadians," pp. 9-10, 49-76, 120-145.
Watch very carefully when the elites change "achievement" into "privilege." What it does is blame the higher achieving groups for the fact that other groups are lower achievers.
Equality is a fabrication.....a fallacy.
Wise up.
OK....there is no such thing as a modern industrialized society in which everyone can or will be materially, or in any other way, "equal."
It is one of most basic of Leftist lies.
("Lie" means that they know it is untrue, yet advance same for their gain.)
Try to accomplish "equality" and you wind up with a society in which more folks are on food stamps than are gainfully employed in full time jobs.
Oh...wait....."Latest Obama Outrage: More People on Food Stamps Than Working Full Time" http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article41331.html
1. Hegels complaint about the flaw in abstract thinking: it cannot conceive of a handsome murderer.
Or a fluent, well-spoken liar?
And that brings us to the intellectuals.
One of their gifts that allows them to be opinion-makers is that they are glib, having a smooth fluency that makes what they say seem natural, even true.
2. Perhaps 'liar' is too strong a word. Perhaps, instead, there are certain possibilities that the intelligentsia cannot even acknowledge as possibilities, because doing so would risk their entire world-vision. And, of course, they cannot conceive of same as possibilities, well then, how could they try to test them empirically?
a. Foremost among the fearful propositions is one that explains the disparity of income and wealth among people.
What is the basis of the 'wall of separation' in the minds of intellectuals between inequality of wealth and income, and the following inequalities: crime, violence, alcohol intake, and other social pathologies. Could it be that there is, actually, no separation, and all related, as causes and as results?
3. Let's say that group 'X' has higher income or higher some other achievements than group 'Y." Intellectuals tend to transform that fact into this: group "X's" good fortune is, in reality, group "Y's" grievance!
a. In viewing society through this magic prism, intellectuals are able to produce the scenario by which group "X" has acquired its wealth by taking it from group "Y"!
OK...here is where the glib use terms like "exploitation," or "profiteering," or "fraud" as the explanation for the economic disparity.
It seems that "X" took "Y's" resources!
b. Where is the consideration of the fact that there is no evidence that "Y" was better off before "X" arrived?
c. Or consideration of evidence that "Y" became demonstrably worse off after "X" left the vacinity?
d. And, while there is no evidence of "X" made "Y" poorer, there is often actual evidence that "X's" presence kept "Y" from being even poorer....and this is disregarded.
4. Imagine if one accepted the possibility that one group might just be higher achievers than another!! Why, the very idea would fly in the face of a view that all folks are actually equal, the same, veritable duplicates.
And make no mistake, that is the essence of Liberalism. But to consider that the lagging group simply has to work harder....well, if you tell them that, why would they vote for you?
Or make you into their 'golden calf'?
a. Further, it deprives the intelligentsia of the fable that they are fighting on the side of the angels, and against the forces of evil.
The above based on chapter four of Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Race."
5. An actual example? Sure...Michael Ornstein's "Ethno-Racial Inequality in the City of Toronto" claimed that "the Japanese are among the most privileged groups in the city" because they were more successful economically that either other minorities there, or the white majority.
http://www.isr.yorku.ca/download/Ornstein--Ethno-Racial_Groups_in_Toronto_1971-2001.pdf
What makes this a stunning example of Liberal intelligentsia insanity is the facts of the documented history of anti-Japanese discrimination in Canada, including the fact that people of Japanese ancestry were interned during WWII even longer than the American Japanese were.
Young and Reid, "The Japanese Canadians," pp. 9-10, 49-76, 120-145.
Watch very carefully when the elites change "achievement" into "privilege." What it does is blame the higher achieving groups for the fact that other groups are lower achievers.
Equality is a fabrication.....a fallacy.
Wise up.
