And yet for some reason, many in the GOP establishment still crave the love and acceptance of these frauds and posers — whose insistence that their boldly revealed anti-intellectualism, worn with an arrogance that bespeaks a recognition that their reign as intellectual elites is born entirely of consensus group-think and sophistic “reasoning” marshaled solely as a will to power, is the height of sophisticated academic inquiry and learning should, when all is said and done, stand as one of the great, surreal moments in human history.
Me, I don’t even bother engaging with such rhetorical provocation any more. I just like to point it out and describe how it works, either linguistically or hermeneutically as a function of the prevailing epistemological paradigm — and then remind my supposed ideological compatriots that, by proving yourselves desirous of the approbation and respect of such fully political, post-modern creatures, you remain part of the very problem you pretend to be standing against.
In fact, you’re not even playing the game you think you’re playing.
You’re the Washington Generals. And you live for a close score, a few nice shots, and maybe a pat on the ass from Meadowlark Lemon every now and then.
It’s sad, frankly.
(h/t motionview)
Don’t we all want the approval of our peers?
We do, Ernst. In collective America nice really counts. So does government having just so darn much to do that disagreement only hinders our good.
Want and desire being the source of human misery. Especially the desire to be accepted or recognized.
The Washington Generals never seem to be enjoying themselves.
For what ii’s worth.
Glenn Reynolds links to an essay on the Supreme Court which notes:
The same could almost certainly be said of the near entirety of the D.C. political establishment, in all it’s multitudinous shapes and forms.
Ooops.
“elite undergraduate and law school settings.”
should have been bolded. You can’t see the italics within the italics.
The point being, the ruling class is the ruling class not because they rule, but because they’re a class.
Pan-Italic tyranny.
The same could almost certainly be said of the near entirety of the D.C. political establishment
And the news media.
I’d include the media within the D.C. establishment.
the NY-D.C. axis
with branch offices in L.A. and S.F.
That fool isn’t better than anyone. A commenter there drops this link.
That is too rich Pablo.
“We are experts because we repeat incessantly that we are experts. We are enlightened and wise because we repeat incessantly that we are enlightened and wise. You are ignorant racists because we repeat incessantly that you are ignorant racists. Why do you knuckle-dragging cousin-humpers have so much trouble understanding this?”
Another example of our betters telling us how awful we are from Taranto:
I really hope that one day, before she shuffles off this mortal coil, Katie Parker can come to realize just how far beyond parody she has descended. “What’s so snobbish about insisting that every Jack Tar go to college?” It is to laugh.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/rick-santorum-is-right/31769
Sure, tomorrow’s Bachelor’s Degree will be worth yesterday’s 8th Grade education, but if it makes the hicks and morons feel better about themselves, and so long as her kids get to do post-doctoral work before taking up a sinecure somewhere, why the hell should she care?
The cheap grace overflows,
like the bounty of other people’s money.
Garbage men need student debt too.
Oh, and at least a BA in recyclable particulate dispersant, including at least one course each in load/volume variability’s and flatcat ethics .
I’m thinking a plumber might need a degree in liquid descent, with a minor in Kotex breaching theory.
Let’s face it, a logger should have at least a masters degree.
Naturally, the the most plumb degree required would be for wood product fusion engineers(you know, a carpenter) .
Hello? Is this thing on?
I’ll be here all week, try the tip jar!
More “betters”:
They Kicked her off the Plantation
beck had jada on tonite. poor girl burst into tears 1/2 way thru.
If Davie Brooks is a “domesticated conservative,” what’s Katie Parker? “Domesticated” or “turned out?”
And what happened to miss Williams is why tenure should be abolished.
“…either linguistically or hermeneutically as a function of the prevailing epistemological paradigm”
I got stuck here, went looking for definitions, and realized you already said that in the first part of the sentence… i think. Got the point, though, if one was intended, and if not, never mind, as I suppose I have already exposed my duncity.
I could only get halfway thru the referenced interview? before my gut seized up. What an elistist snob this McLemee is, cramming his propaganda regardless of words of the obviously learned Mrs, Foley.
Your article is DEAD ON and perfectly written, from this uneducated ex-bystander’s perspective! In fact, I don’t think our side should be playing any game at all, or playing pals with the enemy, ‘cause the enemy don’t play. Just speak the truth and call it what it is, them what they are, and grow a pair, or get the hell out of the way. Look what it did for Newt on occasion, not that he’s my pick, but it shows how people are aching for honesty and totally sick of the bullshit aristocracy.
“from this uneducated ex-bystander’s perspective!”
Welcome aboard Mr conch!
“In fact, I don’t think our side should be playing any game at all, or playing pals with the enemy, ‘cause the enemy don’t play. Just speak the truth and call it what it is, them what they are, and grow a pair, or get the hell out of the way”
Darn skippy!
and…
Keep Firing!!!
hahahah oh that review.
wait the author is serious.
haha. ha.
ha.
oh.
oh.