Intellectuals are full of wordplay and
idea-play which typically avoids the truth, I think largely due to a
lack of courage. Watching the political phenomenon of
Donald Trump has gotten me thinking about courage. Trump could bring
another form of crony capitalism to the White House, and billionaires
may have less to lose in standing up to political correctness, but
courage is involved in Trump's behavior. The intellectuals are
calling him a “bully” which plays into the current syrupy trend
of demasculating men and boys.
I believe one of the things long
necessary is for our intellectual class to have the courage to
acknowledge the biological origin of social behavior. Political
science and general Western culture need to acknowledge that individual selection is secondary to group-selection, and
nationalism trumps globalism in basic
human nature. Having the courage to admit
sociobiology into the humanities, rather than weaseling out of
it, naturally leads, if we are just, to the principle of the separation
of powers and states, protected by federalism, where even ethnocentrism is
acknowledged as a fundamental part of real human nature.
Propagandizing against this with cultural Marxism has made a mess
of the West.
Courage may have more to do with
finding the truth than intelligence. Subverting the truth requires
more cleverness than courage---contrary to popular thought even
comedians use jokes to subvert the truth. The intellectual class in
the West has lacked the courage to acknowledge when they are wrong about cultural
Marxism. When you make the wrong diagnosis you come up with the wrong
solutions, no matter how clever you are.
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