Agreed Michael, and so the saying goes - the smarter they are - the dumber they are.
Take Covid and social distancing and masking. It was OK to go to a restaurant and sit 3 feet across the table from one another and remove our masks to eat. Oh, and there was no 6-foot distancing on an airplane. And what about Natural or Adaptive Immunity - had been a science for as long as I can remember and all of a sudden - Zap - Pow, Batman - it's gone away.
How STUPID do they think we are?
Well, my many friends range from high school grads, military, college grads, doctors, lawyers, CEO's and airline baggage handlers.
I can tell you the educated ones were the most to get vaccinated, unless one's job demanded it. And now so many of them have health issues. But yet they, the most educated ones are still calling us Science - Deniers, well I call them Fact Deniers!
And so far, only a couple of the educated ones have unfollowed me on social media - because I am spreading hate...and so I'm back to my original saying - the smarter they are - the dumber they are.
During my twenty-five years teaching at a state university I noticed what seemed to be an inverse correlation between higher educational credentials and common sense.
Also the more credentialed a faculty member is the more likely he or she is to be an atheist. Seymore Martin Lipset demonstrated this in statistical studies of academics.
What I have learned is that university faculty tend to have higher rates of substance abuse, divorces, and suicides. I learned of at least ten suicides covered up by the local newspaper. One suicide case the paper could not conceal because it involved a husband-wife murder suicide. But still the paper tried to portray them as a “loving couple” who were both facing terminal illnesses. Yeah - sure! The “loving husband” took his wife’s head off with a shotgun before offing himself! As if they could not have gotten prescriptions of Vicodin and washed down a lethal dose each with alcohol. Actually during my tenure there were two cases of university personnel husband-wife murder-suicides by fire-arms.
And - oh yes - also high correlation with them voting Democratic.
A lot of people are being "educated" who aren't amenable to it. A lot of people are going to college who don't belong there. A lot of subjects and diplomas are being awarded that shouldn't exist. Does that help?
Excellent analysis. Except the part about Covid. Yes, there was lots of politics about it, and was played by the “Democrats” against Trump and to steal the 2020 election, but masks and distancing ARE part of what can help to deal with a respiratory disease like Covid, and really intelligent people didn’t stop to what they were told and informed themselves from scientific literature, while the other side, including many educated people fell for the antivax propaganda and Ivermectin.
So yes, lots of educated people were and still are stupid about it and other things, but not in the way you describe.
But again, leaving this on the side, great article. Pity you spoiled it with the Covid thing when there are lots of much better examples.
Well, numerous studies show that masking had near zero statistical impact - and the social distancing thing went out the window when massive BLM and ANTIFA protests were endorsed by the medical community - again, real world reality disagreed with the conclusions and directives of the intelligentsia.
Agreed Michael, and so the saying goes - the smarter they are - the dumber they are.
Take Covid and social distancing and masking. It was OK to go to a restaurant and sit 3 feet across the table from one another and remove our masks to eat. Oh, and there was no 6-foot distancing on an airplane. And what about Natural or Adaptive Immunity - had been a science for as long as I can remember and all of a sudden - Zap - Pow, Batman - it's gone away.
How STUPID do they think we are?
Well, my many friends range from high school grads, military, college grads, doctors, lawyers, CEO's and airline baggage handlers.
I can tell you the educated ones were the most to get vaccinated, unless one's job demanded it. And now so many of them have health issues. But yet they, the most educated ones are still calling us Science - Deniers, well I call them Fact Deniers!
And so far, only a couple of the educated ones have unfollowed me on social media - because I am spreading hate...and so I'm back to my original saying - the smarter they are - the dumber they are.
During my twenty-five years teaching at a state university I noticed what seemed to be an inverse correlation between higher educational credentials and common sense.
Also the more credentialed a faculty member is the more likely he or she is to be an atheist. Seymore Martin Lipset demonstrated this in statistical studies of academics.
What I have learned is that university faculty tend to have higher rates of substance abuse, divorces, and suicides. I learned of at least ten suicides covered up by the local newspaper. One suicide case the paper could not conceal because it involved a husband-wife murder suicide. But still the paper tried to portray them as a “loving couple” who were both facing terminal illnesses. Yeah - sure! The “loving husband” took his wife’s head off with a shotgun before offing himself! As if they could not have gotten prescriptions of Vicodin and washed down a lethal dose each with alcohol. Actually during my tenure there were two cases of university personnel husband-wife murder-suicides by fire-arms.
And - oh yes - also high correlation with them voting Democratic.
A lot of people are being "educated" who aren't amenable to it. A lot of people are going to college who don't belong there. A lot of subjects and diplomas are being awarded that shouldn't exist. Does that help?
You've just described the self-satisfied. Those that still believe the NYT. And CNN. And in "government needs to take care of all ills".
They believe in "intellectual superiority" and ignore common sense.
Smart doesn’t mean wise.
I was unsuccessful in my attempt to teach a tenured university professor how to play Yatzee.
I see highly educated patients who exhibit the reverse Dunning Kruger effect every day.
Excellent analysis. Except the part about Covid. Yes, there was lots of politics about it, and was played by the “Democrats” against Trump and to steal the 2020 election, but masks and distancing ARE part of what can help to deal with a respiratory disease like Covid, and really intelligent people didn’t stop to what they were told and informed themselves from scientific literature, while the other side, including many educated people fell for the antivax propaganda and Ivermectin.
So yes, lots of educated people were and still are stupid about it and other things, but not in the way you describe.
But again, leaving this on the side, great article. Pity you spoiled it with the Covid thing when there are lots of much better examples.
Well, numerous studies show that masking had near zero statistical impact - and the social distancing thing went out the window when massive BLM and ANTIFA protests were endorsed by the medical community - again, real world reality disagreed with the conclusions and directives of the intelligentsia.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/masks-still-dont-work
And here ^^ we have a perfect example of R-DK.
I conclude I am an incorrigible rube. LOL