If you don't watch PJTV, I recommend it. Andrew Klavan (Klavan on Culture) and Bill Whittle (Afterburner) are always spot on. Another favorite is Alfonzo Rachel (Zo-Nation).
Check out this one, in which Whittle talks about Common People vs the Elites. Why the former are so much better, smarter, skilled and sensible than the latter.
I identify will Bill. I used to be one of "them" too. And I've learned the same lesson. It just took me longer.
I particularly like his remarks about becoming a "Day-Walker" turning other "Elitist Vampires" towards the light.
Amazing how poetic a "common man" can be, eh?
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9 months ago
"Check out this one, in which Whittle talks about Common People vs the Elites. Why the former are so much better, smarter, skilled and sensible than the latter."
ReplyDeleteI certainly know what you mean, I'd sooner take parenting advice from another parent than from a dog owning x-spurt parenting professor... but there is a danger in using common sense which common sense is prone to miss.
If you don't have the knowledge and experience vital to being able to make common sense decisions, which the common parent has in spades, and the poodle prof is bereft of, downright stupid decisions can be made because you weren't aware of what you didn't know.
The uninformed common sense response to something like high interest rates, is "Pass a law forbidding high interest rates. Duh.", thereby ensuring black market loan sharking and economic chaos and maybe even collapse.
The 'Common Sense' conservative meme going around right now is scaring the beejeeber's out of me, and was the point of two recent posts ( "Athens and America: The Bog Of The Gaps" and "What Would the Founders Do? Common Sense says WHO CARES!")... the common sense of our Founding Fathers was only possible because of the uncommon (today) knowledge they possessed - without that, following 'common sense' will lead us down the path to where all good intentions eventually wind up.
We need more than anything else, to get that uncommon knowledge again into the 'common' man's mind. The good news is that, if the best seller lists are any indication, people are thirsting for just that right now... the most important thing we can all do at this moment is whatever you can to point them to things like the Preamble to slake that thirst.