Famous Remark

In Liberty and Tyranny, Mark Levin includes a famous quote by William F. Buckley about how college educated elites, though brilliant and highly educated, make poor, authoritarian, disastrous decisions if they gain leadership roles.

Eric Hoffer advises cossetting intellectuals in America but never give them power.

Dennis Prager adds that professors are smart, but they have not wisdom because they reject religion.

From Page 59, here is the quip: "I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty at Harvard University."

All these conservative thinkers are right. Professors with PhDs are dumber than high school educated blue collar workers. Why is this so?

First of all, these professors are public employees. They have never done a day of real work in their lives. They live in a world of theories. They have lost their faculty for common sense, so they do not propose workable solutions for the real world. They try implementing what should not be tried.

Second, they are incapable of admitting they are wrong. They are incorrigibly arrogant, and really, deep-down they are convinced that they are superior to common people, so therefore their superior, perfect decisions, conclusions and decisions rendered are infallible. Such proposals, as public policy, are often disastrous.

Third, most of them are Marxists, and though Marxism failed everywhere, has been tried many times, leading to untold suffering, the murder of tens of millions of citizens, led the world to the brink of nuclear war, mass poverty and starvation, and dreams of world conquest, Leftist, Western intellectuals have run cover for Marxism's failures, so it is still respected and advocated. These professorial Marxists want one world government under a Marxist dictatorship, and that is a horrible idea on many levels.

Fourth, Prager suggests that following the Bible and worshiping God (Yahweh or Jesus) are the only or the primary source of acquiring wisdom to live, let alone govern. Professors en masses are Leftist, secular humanists, irreligious and often atheistic, so their way of living and their ill-conceived and unworkable political agenda will prove authoritarian and unworkable as big government, under their reign, will finish consuming the entire society.

Fifth, professors are public employees, working as cogs in the machine, functionaries in a hierarchy. Brilliant and highly educated, living as a bureaucrat makes professors stupid as groupthink, conformity, group-living an an insistence on ideological purity to the religion of Leftism drives them to make poor decisions. As leaders of America, they will tank the country.

Sixth, as joiners, groupists, bureaucrats, group-livers, Marxists, these professors cannot become vibrant, whole-person individuators. As crowd creatures, their creativity is stunted, or only expressed itself professionally in very narrow, acceptable veins of development. Being without liberty or individuality, they cannot love themselves. As they do not love themselves, but hate themselves and each other, these angry, bitter sell-outs that allowed themselves to be deprived of freedom by their professional associations, their institutions, and their group affiliations, feel victimized. Once they get elite power over the masses, they will seek revenge on the little people because someone has to pay for their suffering and abysmal self-esteem. The cruelty that professors are capable of inflicting upon the masses should frighten the hell out of anyone, and Hoffer provides historical example after example of professorial abuse of power once in power.

Seventh, as groupists, bureaucrats, and zealots, professors are emotional, not logical creatures, so the decisions they make are often ill-conceived and illogical. Their inability to be intellectually versatile keeps them rigid like Professor Obama, unable to learn on the job.

Eighth, because a professor is not also out in the business world, or working with his hands, and writing brilliant concertos at night, he is narrow, isolated and extreme. His extreme subjectivity forces him to not serve as a leader of all, not objective, not enjoying the bird's eye view.

Ninth, professors are fanatics, and being a fanatic makes one rigid and one-dimensional, unable to come up with creative solutions to changing conditions on the ground.

Tenth, professors as authoritarian elitists are evil, and, in the long run, being evil makes one foolish and making mostly poor decisions.

Eleventh,  Hoffer portrays intellectuals as part of every ruling class for the last 3000 years. They crave power over the masses to direct, manage and rule them. Things are never for the common good when they are top-down with administration and reform from above.