Monday - October 11, 2004

In My World

The New Ruling Class: Dissecting The Meritocracy There are two Americas. Quite a few politicians, pundits, and other assorted plant life have made note of this phenomena in recent years. There is indeed a stratification of society in America. It is a caste system whereby certain individuals perceive themselves to be of more value to American society than others. In their minds, this self-perceived importance endows these individuals with the “right” to educate and guide those who are less endowed with mental prowess than themselves. These people have convinced themselves that they are natural leaders and the rest of the population should do nothing more or less than just follow their leadership. This new aristocracy is a “meritocracy”. Here is the formal definition from Webster: meritocracy - “a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects”.

Ah, but there’s the rub. Who determines which individuals belong to the meritocracy and are thereby chosen to be given power over the “sheeple” as the meritocrats have named those under their care?

(pardon me while I segue into full sarcasm mode here ....)

According to them, the meritocrats are self-proclaimed by their very intelligence. It should be obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than room temperature. Of course, all you sheeple are too mentally handicapped to see that very fact so just take their word for it and be on your way.

The poster child for this movement was Al Gore until the 2000 election when a deranged populace (quite obviously the beer-drinking NASCAR crowd - sniff) somehow managed to cast enough votes against him in the Presidential election to throw the whole question of leadership to the Supreme Court, which is dominated by far-Right conservatives who had no business deciding who should lead America. That is how America ended up with this horrid, uncouth, rough cowboy from Texas who was a “C” student in college and was a drunk for most of his life when he wasn’t going AWOL from the National Guard. Al Gore was a highly intelligent member of the meritocracy. He had loyally stood by the side of President William Clinton (a Rhodes scholar, for God’s sake) during his troubles when the evil Republicans tried to smear his good name with accusations of adultery, false testimony and other sordid crimes. Vice-President Gore was a privileged child of the Washington, DC environment whose father had served his country honorably for decades. Vice-President Gore deserved the Presidency. How dare those “sheeple” vote against him, and what form of bad government allows a group of obviously biased judges to select the President Of The United States? How dare they?

Well, the 2004 election is going to be very different! The meritocracy have chosen a new leader. He is John Forbes Kerry, an aristocratic man of giant stature who understands that America needs the meritocracy to retake power and dissolve all the abysmal mistakes made by this Bush person over the last four years. This “pretender” has dragged us into a miserable foreign war that none of the other civilized nations want a part of. Saddam was contained and we didn’t have anything to fear from him and bin Laden could have easily been reasoned with - we could have just given him plenty of money and nuclear secrets like President Clinton did with the North Koreans and all would have been hunkey-dorrey. Eh, what?

(excuse me while I shed this slimy sarcasm cloak ....)

How many rabid Leftists do you know that believe everything in the previous paragraphs? I know quite a few. Sadly, their minds are made up and the rest of us are too ignorant to understand why there is absolutely no reason to argue with them. They proudly proclaim to the world at large the education they received at university where they were introduced to Chomsky and Kant. They will bore you for hours with quotes from Dylan Thomas or James Joyce. They know which wine goes with which food and which fork to use when eating salad at a formal dinner.

What many of you “normal people” may not realize is this is an attitude that is inculcated in their heads at college. You see, the Liberal world of academia not only bends their minds toward a Liberal slant on everything but the professors and administrators at our colleges are also insidiously convincing them of their moral and intellectual superiority by virtue of having learned at the feet of such wondrously intelligent professors.

(go ahead and gag over that last paragraph .... )

Yes, we have two Americas. They are not as different intellectually as the Left would have you believe. The so-called meritocracy does not have a monopoly over brains and intelligence. Neither are they the sole possessors of college educations. Neither are they any more capable of rendering moral judgement than anybody reading this. We all know the difference between good and evil, pleasure and pain. We all know what is right and what is wrong. We do not need anyone telling us who to vote for and we damned sure don’t need this patronizing attitude from the “meritocracy”.

I have a BA in Music from the University Of Alabama, a BS in Computer Science from Troy State University and a MS in Computer Science from Troy State University. Now that I’ve dropped out of the fast lane of high profile computer consulting I have plans to finish the two books I’m working on and start on my Ph.D at either UAB or UAH. I’ve paid my dues several times over. I’ve read Chomsky and rejected nearly everything the man had to say as psycho-babble with no basis in real critical analysis. I was given an IQ test in college in 1968. They told me my score was in excess of 160. My reply was “So?” I passed my SAT(1967), ACT (1967) and GRE (1991) with scores in the top 2% in the nation. Does all that somehow endow me with the right to tell you what is right and what is wrong? Not no, but hell no! I can make observations and create a discourse with you and hopefully we will both gain from the exchange. I would be an idiot to think I could achieve more than that. Especially if I adopted a condescending attitude toward you. No, I had rather remain a member of the human race than elevate myself. God and gravity both make sure my feet stay firmly planted on the ground. Neither one of which can be deterred indefinitely.

As for Professor Chomsky and the new “meritocracy” I highly recommend they go back and read one man’s works that they obviously missed in the process of matriculation .... a fellow by the name of Spinoza. I would recommend they start here with Spinoza’s “Ethics”.

Here is a little something from the aforementioned treatise to help get them started on their way to enlightenment and hopefully gaining a little humility to go with their arrogance and ego ....

“No positive quality possessed by a false idea is removed by the presence of what is true, in virtue of its being true.”

Ponder that while I take my extremely high IQ, my college degrees and my undeniable intellect and go have a beer with my friends and discuss the latest issue of Playboy and whether or not the designated hitter rule has ruined the American League (I believe it has).

Posted by The Skipper     on 10/11/2004 at 10:34 AM   
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