Obviously this is a generalization but there is clearly a trend. Any theories?
Obviously this is a generalization but there is clearly a trend. Any theories?
Because usually "intellectuals" are liberal professors have never worked in the real world and produced anything that created jobs for others. Their money just "appears" from the institution from which they teach. It is a form of socialism that they are comfortable. Capitalism threatens them because capitalism does and liberalism takes.
This country was founded by capitalism and liberals seem to think America is bad and evil.
Intellectuals do not hate capitalism. However, they do tend to be more critical of capitalism because as intellectuals their tendency is to mistrust the things that people around them blindly believe. This is why intellectuals are critical of religious institutions, politicians, media and entertainment, etc.
Also, because intellectuals have training in analysis, they usually understand that almost everything can be improved through intelligent analysis, including capitalism.
Characterizing the critique of capitalism as hate is getting it actually backwards. The only people who can save capitalism from its flaws are the people who are critically engaged in it. It's more correct to call this critical engagement love than hate -- hate entailing wholesale uncritical rejection and love entailing close relationship of care and deep concern.
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Obviously this is a generalization but there is clearly a trend. Any theories?
Were you alive in 08? Are you alive today?
I'd like to see some evidence of this trend claim you make. I know facts are a big ask for you, but I am optimistic.
I'm also not clear how hate figures into it. Please explain.
Asker of questions wrote:
Because usually "intellectuals" are liberal professors have never worked in the real world and produced anything that created jobs for others. Their money just "appears" from the institution from which they teach. It is a form of socialism that they are comfortable. Capitalism threatens them because capitalism does and liberalism takes.
This country was founded by capitalism and liberals seem to think America is bad and evil.
Spot on
I would add to this that many intellectuals grew up being the smartest guys in their classes, got great grades all through HS and college, got Ph.D's... and watched as many of their classmates who weren't quite as smart but had better social skills and earned only bachelor or master's degrees went on to make ten times as much annually in the corporate world as attorneys, CPA firm partners, business execs, etc.
A better question is why so many people can't distinguish between regulating capitalism and hating it. Very, very, few "intellectuals" actually hate capitalism.
They're trust fund babies with their on $ta$h of ca$h.
Asker of questions wrote:
Because usually "intellectuals" are liberal professors have never worked in the real world and produced anything that created jobs for others. Their money just "appears" from the institution from which they teach. It is a form of socialism that they are comfortable. Capitalism threatens them because capitalism does and liberalism takes.
This country was founded by capitalism and liberals seem to think America is bad and evil.
And socialism bailed capitalism out after the finacial crash.
Explain that one to us?
Would it be too much to ask you to prove your claim, explain your question or teach you how to spell "financial"?
beardy guy wrote:
And socialism bailed capitalism out after the finacial crash.
Explain that one to us?
No, it didn't... Theft "bailed" the system out. But, that theft is surfacing, as it always will. it is amazing how leftists view other people's money.
beardy guy wrote:
And socialism bailed capitalism out after the finacial crash.
Explain that one to us?
beardy guy wrote:
Asker of questions wrote:Because usually "intellectuals" are liberal professors have never worked in the real world and produced anything that created jobs for others. Their money just "appears" from the institution from which they teach. It is a form of socialism that they are comfortable. Capitalism threatens them because capitalism does and liberalism takes.
This country was founded by capitalism and liberals seem to think America is bad and evil.
And socialism bailed capitalism out after the finacial crash.
Explain that one to us?
Nope. Fascism ("the merger of state and corporate power" -Mussolini) bailed out connected big banks. Capitalism would have continued just fine without it.
deleuze wrote:
Intellectuals do not hate capitalism. However, they do tend to be more critical of capitalism because as intellectuals their tendency is to mistrust the things that people around them blindly believe.
If that were true they'd mistrust Marxism and its little sister Social Justice.
The illustrious conservative commentator/opinionator David Brooks makes several million dollars per year, and basically his thousands of columns written over the years have a single theme: to be wealthy is to be moral, and to be poor is to be lazy and immoral.
Nobody would ever accuse Brooks of being anything but an "intellectual." I'm quite sure he does not capitalism.
Is there a difference between intellectuals and "intellectuals"?
DC Wonk wrote:
The illustrious conservative commentator/opinionator David Brooks makes several million dollars per year, and basically his thousands of columns written over the years have a single theme: to be wealthy is to be moral, and to be poor is to be lazy and immoral.
Nobody would ever accuse Brooks of being anything but an "intellectual." I'm quite sure he does not capitalism.
Do you not understand what a general trend is? David Brooks is one guy.
The reason has to do with the modernist and post-modernist trend in philosophy, which attack the validity of reason. Hatred of capitalism is hatred of the mind.
I wouldn't say intellectuals hate capitalism, though it does seem many intellectuals are pretty detached from the real world as, by definition, they work in the world of ideas. I've found many very bright people to be idealistic and out of touch with the way people and world actually operate and the realities of society, sometimes going so far as to say things like, "all people should be paid the same, and this won't be a problem because people will take jobs out of the goodness of their heart" and other ludicrous things. That is a quote from someone I know who I also happen to know is a brilliant person, someone with an IQ of 140 at least, and the four others at the table, three of which are also clearly brilliant people as well (PhD students in math and physics), were in agreement. However, none of them have ever had really shatty jobs before in their life, or ever had to do backbreaking work, so they don't understand that a lot of times jobs pay more because the work is either very unpleasant or dangerous. How such brilliant people could be so illogical and idealistic is beyond me, but I have a pretty mixed background.
deleuze wrote:
Intellectuals do not hate capitalism. However, they do tend to be more critical of capitalism because as intellectuals their tendency is to mistrust the things that people around them blindly believe. This is why intellectuals are critical of religious institutions, politicians, media and entertainment, etc.
Also, because intellectuals have training in analysis, they usually understand that almost everything can be improved through intelligent analysis, including capitalism.
Characterizing the critique of capitalism as hate is getting it actually backwards. The only people who can save capitalism from its flaws are the people who are critically engaged in it. It's more correct to call this critical engagement love than hate -- hate entailing wholesale uncritical rejection and love entailing close relationship of care and deep concern.
Intellectuals don't blindly accept the ideas of those around them? Universities are the most intolerant environments in existence where dissent and diversity of thought is shouted down. Intellectuals learn early on that in order to survive they must walk in lock step with those around them embracing the cookie cutter standard intellectual ideology.