10.31.09
Liberal intelligence vs dumbed down scientism
A strange rumination from the right: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?
Since the author virtually cedes to liberals, there isn’t much to say, except….
Liberals should be in a state of alarm at their own ‘dumbing down’ at the hands of reductionist scientism, whose misdefinition of intelligence as the clever high-IQ routines of narrow technical subjects is leading to a slide in general culture behind a veneer of sophistication.
A close look shows a great deal of technocratic scientism to be a dumber oversimplication that inhibits the education of thought.
Real intelligence can be harmed by bad science education.
Stephen P. Smith said,
October 31, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I will agree that the dumbing down is ongoing, in our schools and even in science.
But whose problem is this?
It can`t be the problem of private schools that are not so dumb, even if they are religious and well in agreement with the separation of church and state.
It can`t be the problem of intelligent design advocates because these folks find themselves with an intellectual advantage compared to the Darwinists stuck in a retarded thinking that dates back 150 years. The dumb are ripe for persuasion, and manipulation, and so the present condition is fertile for the propagation of intelligent design.
It can`t be the problem of the politically incorrect because these people have been disenfranchised from the intellectual elitists that pretend to be smart but are only dumb.
It is only a problem for those folks that are protecting the image of the great society.