“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
