Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Conservative Intellectuals Compared to Liberal Intellectuals

I lifted the following quote from a post by Keith Burgess-Jackson. I liked it.

"The conservative intellectuals I’ve met or come to know during the past couple of years have impressed me profoundly with their knowledge, wit, fairness, courage, decency, and good judgment. I can’t say that about the liberal intellectuals I know, most of whom are so desperate for political power to implement their egalitarian, pacifist fantasies that they violate basic norms of civility and honesty."

Update: Victor Davis Hanson, writing in an article titled “Real divide is only in elitist minds," reiterates the comment of Burgess-Jackson, above.

"In contrast, the universities, the arts, the major influential media and Hollywood are predominately liberal—and furious. They bring an enormous amount of capital, talent, education and cultural influence into the political fray—but continue to lose real political power. The talented elite plays the same role to the rest of America as the Europeans do to the United States—venting and seething because the supposedly less sophisticated, but far more powerful, average Joes don’t embrace their visions of utopia.

Elites from college professors and George Soros to Bruce Springsteen and Garrison Keillor believe that their underappreciated political insight is a natural byproduct of their own proven artistic genius, education, talent or capital."

Link to Hanson’s article via Richard Nikoley.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/27 at 04:14 PM
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