Disinformation and Idiocy: Part 8 of 10

My apologies for not having this prepared sooner, but Calculus work has become more intense, leaving me with less writing time. Anyways, here we go.

Accusation 8. The left are snobs.
They think having fifty letters after your name and having written a book with lots of long words makes you a better person. Some of them actually swallow the "climate change" crap because the scammers trot out these 'intellectuals" who bombard them with figures, and it must be true because this guy's a professor! And the ridiculous notion that "education is the key" is just another example.

News flash: When you have a doctorate in something, you are likely to have researched it a lot more and have some incredibly specialized knowledge about it. Would anyone say "Albert Einstein wrote a book. Therefore, he doesn't know a thing about physics"? Not unless you were completely insane (which is possible).

Secondly, the writer of these accusations seems to somehow think that books are bad, and that "intellectuals" are evil evil commies. Now, it is true that most profs are more left-leaning than your average Texan. Let's think about that for a second. Profs and intellectuals are well-educated, and have seen a lot more of history and the world. Remarkably, they are much more liberal. What must we therefore conclude? Those who are educated will usually lean to the left, because they have seen more of the world and of history.

For the record, education is the key, unless you want a lazy, complacent, ignorant society...which explains the United States as a whole. An educated society is of benefit to everyone. When I go to my doctor, I benefit from his education. If I was to have laser eye surgery, would I want to know that the people performing the surgery were well educated and knew exactly what they were doing? Hell yes. Do I benefit if my doctor or surgeon isn't educated? No. In that case, the laser eye surgery tends to end very badly.

My point is that education is a fundamental component of any great society. That means reading books. That means questioning what you're told. That means occasionally defying authority and figuring things out for yourself, and not accepting something "because I was told so". To do otherwise is foolish. If someone told you that the world was made in 6 24-hour days as little as 6,000 years ago, and that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs....the bullshit scanner had better be going off...and if it isn't...I recommend some therapy. If you refuse to question...I recommend lots of therapy.