Saturday, October 26, 2019
Non-random thought about "intellectual" idiots
Spiked does an interview with an entity called Harold Bloom.
Bloom allegedly wrote something about the 'closing of the American mind'. I hadn't paid any attention to him before, and now I wish I hadn't bothered to read this interview. His mind is perfectly closed, perfectly locked in perfect lockstep with TV.
My mission as a teacher and a writer is to try to get people to stop satisfying themselves with lesser stuff and to look at more difficult and more rewarding and more mind-enhancing pleasures like reading Shakespeare or Cervantes or Proust or James Joyce. That is to say, something that teaches you how to think. If you don’t know how to read properly, and if you do not read or absorb the best that has been thought and said, then you will never learn to think properly. And if you don’t know how to think properly, then you get the disaster of our current society. We could not have this monstrous, evil, mindless president and this horrible debasement of all our humane values if people were properly educated.1. People who have learned how to think don't spew verbatim repetitions of Soros talking points. People who have learned how think can recognize and reject manipulative propaganda. 2. "This horrible debasement of humane values" was ENTIRELY CREATED by monsters educated at Yale and Harvard, monsters who consumed all the "more difficult" crap that Bloom advocates. The "more difficult" crap taught them how to cheat and steal and extort and slaughter and torture with maximum efficiency. Jesus. What a total idiot. Maybe he was smarter when he was younger, but I doubt it. Most people get wiser with age, not stupider.
Labels: infinite STUPID
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