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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (60301)	2/12/2005 9:43:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<The pity of it is that at least in America, the weak-minded think they're smart, and the smart are resigned to the fact that they're outnumbered> Ray, welcome to the world, not just the USA. You said it well. Around the world there are anti-intellectual pogroms. Chairman Mao, Pol Pot, and Adolf indulged themselves in genocidal anti-elite/intellectual murder. Everyone knows to get the brains out of action to stop the opposition = pick off a few leaders and the mob soon tames down. But anti-brain is common everywhere at a lesser level than genocide. With good cause often enough, because the intellectuals are too dumb to realize that they aren't as special as they think, and foolishly start to get a superior, born-to-rule sense of entitlement. Think of the Medical and Legal Guilds for example. When people are smart, they have an idea, and think, ipso facto, it's a good idea. They are so used to their ideas being better than those surrounding them, that they forget to vet their own ideas and brook no opposition, ending in a self-reverential circuitous argument = "I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I'm right. I think this, therefore it's true. It's true, therefore I am. I am, therefore I think." I think that's logical, though it might have slipped a cog. <the average American is superstitious, xenophobic, ill-informed and pretty darn illogical. > Not to mention the average Chinese, India, African and Kiwi, among others. Come to think of it, with good cause. There's definitely something going on in the world which we don't seem to be quite designed to understand. Xenophobia, given the murderous territorial tribalism from which we all derived is evolutionarily a very good idea. Ill-informed? Well, that's obvious. A couple of minutes clicking around Google tells us how ignorant we all are. Logical is nice, but after going around three different directions and taking 4 steps in the dark, things do get confusing so a bit of illogicality is understandable. Some people are better than others of course and some can't tell the difference between correlation and causation, believe it or not. Mqurice