Education

All humans are innately wicked from birth more than innately good. What this signifies is that anyone can do great good or great evil, like serving as a guard at Auschwitz. Being educated does not seem to be an exemption from the capacity to commit heinous crimes in the service of totalitarian states.

Intellectuals, the clerks, the clerisy, the educated, for 3500 years of recorded history have always enthusiastically and efficiently served their masters: kings, oligarchs, popes, cardinals, aristocrats, nobles. The well-educated have always served their masters as part of whatever ruling class held sway in a specific country.

As part of the rulers and commanders, they felt proud and comforted of their high position. They enjoyed directing, supervising and lording it over the inferior masses, whom they really believed were a lesser species of human.

The educated looked down on the illiterate, unwashed masses: the money-grubbers, the merchants, stockbrokers,  insurance interests and bankers, industrialists, shipping firms, trades people,  blue collar workers and the unskilled workers. The educated believe that they are smarter, better, more compassionate and wiser than the masses that they feel superior to.

The educated are very self-righteous. They have all the answers and are always correct. Therefore, they are beyond being criticized, corrected or admonished. Their job as part of the ruling class is to be be the managing adult in the room directing and supervising the children, the naughty, foolish, selfish, weak masses that do not know how to live and are not fit to run their own lives or make their own decisions. Their private lives need a public manager in all its aspects.

The educated condescend to rule and direct the masses, over which they crave to have power over.