Conspiracy seems different from corporate-military-industrial hegemony. Or whatever one calls it.
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I disagree it is also an deeper psychological ailment. I had an highly intelligent friend that went down the deep end on climate change.
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Highly intelligent doesn't necessarily mean deeply read with a sound sense of history and historical context.
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Well educated people tend to be intelligent and vice-versa. A generalisation but generally true as well
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Well, yes and no. I know an farmer who I consider one of the wisest and intelligent persons I know. He has 9 years of school.
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And wise, intelligent people aren't necessarily well versed in humanities, history, classical tradition, science-hist., etc.
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So what makes them wise if they are not well versed in humanities etc etc? Wisdom is knowledge that we dont have That's what makes them wise
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I think of ascetics living in caves, some hermit types, certain poet geniuses, or, like my mom--basically unread and yet wise.
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I think of many academics in the humanities who aren't remotely wise but complete loons.
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Yep, and I would argue that they have not read their Homer, Sappho, Shakespeare, and Austen in a spirit of humility and gratitude.
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Indeed not. They'll usually read them in order to be outraged at patriarchal heteronormative cissexism.
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Precisely
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