In Defense of Ignorance

Intellectuals like to blame the world's problems on “ignorance," as if education is the key to peace and progress. First, being uneducated does not make one "ignorant." Like Snoop Dogg said, “A lot of people like to fool you and say that you’re not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That’s what I learned from selling crack." And second, history's most notorious killers were intellectuals who were cheered on by fanboy intellectuals the world over.

Mussolini had an astonishing number of intellectual followers. Hitler had some of his largest followings on college campuses. Teachers and professors participated in some of the more grusome excesses of the SS. Academic publications in Britain refused to publish George Orwell’s accounts of the communist purge in Spain. Western intellectuals continued to support the Soviet Union long after its brutality was made known. Bertrand Russel wanted the West to risk a descent into barbarism by following the Soviet example.

It’s not just the leftists. Conservative intellectuals support war and the draft because they supposedly promote the “virtues” of sacrifice and patriotism. Neocon scumbag Andrew Roberts defends virtually every atrocity committed by the British and American governments during the 20th century.

Writes Paul Johnson, “The association of intellectuals with violence occurs too often to be dismissed as an aberration.”

This association is explained by intellectuals' shared belief that human nature can be improved. Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Mao, Trotsky--all were trying to create a New Man. Intellectuals have always felt called to mold society according to their personal preferences. Albert Nock called it “a monstous itch for changing people.” This goes all the way back to Plato’s Republic. Furthermore, Intellectuals are quick to resort to violence because they are moral relativists; they believe that might makes right, and that the end justifies the means.

It is the dark dream of intellectuals that Man can be purified through pain. Stalin said, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” Bertrand Russell wrote that Man’s salvation could only be built in the firm foundation of “unyielding despair.” In the Saw movies, the Jigsaw Killer puts his victims into deadly traps from which they must escape via self-mutilitation. He believes that those who pass his tests will have a new appreciation for life—and that those who fail deserve to die. This is the sick mind of the intellectual.

Intellectuals are cowards who refuse to admit the violent nature of their own ideologies. They love the State because it can do their dirty work. One of my college professors said that every young person should be required to “serve” the nation in some capacity. This concept is inherently totalitarian. It implies that the State owns the people and can dispense with them as it pleases. He said, “I just see nothing wrong with asking people to sacrifice.” I said, “You’re not asking them. You’re forcing them.”

What happens to people who break the law? They go to jail. What is the #1 reason people don’t want to go to jail? Ass-rape. So, by implication, Professor Jigsaw wants to threaten people with ass-rape to mold them into better citizens. I doubt he would personally threaten to rape someone, but he has no problem with the State doing it for him. He’s a scumbag coward pervert.

Why are intellectuals such assholes? What is their major malfunction?

Intellectuals suffer from a deep-seated inferiority complex. They feel entitled them to wealth and prestige, but most people don’t care what they have to say. In a free society, Steve Jobs and Lebron James get more respect than all intellectuals combined. It’s this gap—between their own sense of self-worth and society’s estimation of their worth—that makes them so dangerous.

Intellectuals get no respect for a reason: They don’t do anything. They publish abstract nonsense in obscure journals and preach wacked-out theories to hungover undergrads. They feel left out. They’re losers, and they know it. The call for an “alternative” social order is just a power grab. Intellectuals want a system where they can have the power. They promise it will be fair and equal, but as the pigs said in Animal Farm, "Some are more equal than others." Very few conservative intellectuals have served in the military. I doubt that Professor Jigsaw spent a year of his life cleaning up graffiti. Intellectuals always promise a utopia for the common man; history shows it's always precisely the opposite.

Most intellectuals are despicable human beings. Paul Johnson looked at the personal lives of Rousseau, Marx, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russel, Noam Chomsky, and others, and found common threads of aggressiveness, cruelty, deceitfulness, egotism, hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and cowardice. The only proletarian Karl Marx ever knew in person was the poor maid who worked for him and was never paid, except in room and board, for her labors.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Bill Clinton’s commerce secretary, Jeffrey Garten, once said that Paul Krugman “behaves like someone with a massive chip on his shoulder.” Again, it’s not just the leftists. Consider Bill Buckley, the architect of the modern conservative movement. (How’d that turn out, by the way?) After his passing, Peter Brimelow wrote an honest obituary describing Buckley as a vain, vicious, vengeful, overly sensitive, deeply insecure, drugged-up, social-climbing plutocrat. (And if you think that defaming the dead is not classy, know that Buckley did the same thing to Murray Rothbard.)

Those who profess love for humanity treat everyone around them like crap. Those who see only ugliness in their fellow man are the ugliest of all. Intellectuals are pathetic, lonely, bitter, pathological, hateful, lying, envious bastards who want to enslave or destroy mankind. Maybe it’s not a lust for power. Maybe it’s just a nihilistic hatred for the world. What every intellectual shares is a deep-seated contempt for the common man—his values, his lifestyle, and his very existence. They hate plumbers who make more money than they do. They hate Wal-Mart, NASCAR, and US Weekly. They hate people who worship some zombie Jewish carptenter from Nazarath. Most of all, they hate being ignored.

For the common man, there’s only one rational response: Hate them back. Like Carl said in The Simpsons episode when Springfield revolts against the rule of the Mensa Society, “Let’s make litter of the literatti!”

Maybe the common man doesn't "believe" in evolution, but at least he believes in human nature, right and wrong, making an honest living, and minding his own business. That makes him morally, socially, and intellectually superior to most intellectuals. The common man does not need to be enlightened by intellectuals; he needs to destroy them. There’s a great bumper sticker that reads, “My kid beat up your honor student.” It’s time to beat up the honor students, old-school style.