[X] SB – Gad Saad on academic idiocy
Bad ideas from universities.
Intellectuals come up with some of the dumbest ideas.
Have you ever met somebody who was really smart?
And I mean REALLY smart.
Not “I read a book once and now I’m going to ruin Thanksgiving” smart.
I mean genuinely gifted.
You say something, and they can spit out facts, figures, studies, dates, names, formulas. And they’re not bragging. They just know it.
Those people are fascinating.
But then there’s another kind of person.
This is the guy who learned something yesterday and wants to impress you with it today.
He gives you the thumbnail version of a subject, but presents it like he did his graduate dissertation on it.
You ask one question, and suddenly you discover the man has never actually thought about the subject.
He has merely encountered vocabulary.
And folks, that brings me to the modern Left.
Because one of the great misconceptions of our time is that Leftists are stupid.
They're not necessarily stupid.
Some of them are extraordinarily intelligent.
I know people on the Left who are brilliant scientists, engineers, doctors, mathematicians, researchers.
They can explain molecular biology to you while you’re still trying to remember what a mitochondria does.
But then you ask them about politics.
And suddenly the intellectual horsepower disappears.
It's like watching a Ferrari pull up to a gas station and discover the driver has no idea what gasoline is.
How does that happen?
Because intelligence in one discipline does not automatically transfer to every other discipline.
You can be a brilliant physicist and have the political instincts of a Golden Retriever chasing a ceiling fan.
And I think a major reason for this is academia.
Because academia doesn't just teach people facts.
It teaches them frameworks.
It teaches them what questions are respectable, what conclusions are enlightened, what opinions are sophisticated, and which ideas are beneath consideration.
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