The Clerisy

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...503cc7efed9e_story.html?wprss=rss_george-will

George Will asserts clerks (lawyers) are masters of a fictional world with no correlates to the real world.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I read that this weekend or so. I remember using a quote out of it but not getting into the Clerisy part. I am rereading Hoffer's The Ordeal of Change about the Intellectual (scribe) and his place in government. In crises and change he sides with the masses (ego) but once stasis hits, he is more comfortable with government (recognition) than the masses, who no longer need him, even if that government is a tyranny, and in that case, even more so, because the tyrant needs his justifications and...,



gravitas. As per Rand: Attila and the Witch Doctor.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

PS, the intellectual that is of the most danger to the masses is the lesser intellectual. The true intellectual is preoccupied with his work, the lesser frustrated and in his frustration sates his ego and ambition with the idea that the masses "need" him to manage their lives, thus you get your Obamas and Grubers. Meanwhile, an Oligarchy of birth and education is slowly emerging that really despises and looks down upon the average citizen which is why you see books like The Population Bomb and the fervent support for abortion, those unwanted children are a problem for them, but so are the wanted children of the "Idiocracy." Euthanasia is their purview also. Taking care of the sick masses is expensive, and sooner or later, they fear having to foot the bill, so they design very nontransparent taxing schemes that are very hard for the 'stupid' masses to figure out that they are being bled dry and champion all vehicles related to voluntary death on the part of the masses, maybe even war, if they know there is no fear of loosing...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Lawyers would be scribes and complexity is how they maintain their standing; look at how complex all early forms of writing were (Hoffer).

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I read that this weekend or so. I remember using a quote out of it but not getting into the Clerisy part. I am rereading Hoffer's The Ordeal of Change about the Intellectual (scribe) and his place in government. In crises and change he sides with the masses (ego) but once stasis hits, he is more comfortable with government (recognition) than the masses, who no longer need him, even if that government is a tyranny, and in that case, even more so, because the tyrant needs his justifications and...,



gravitas. As per Rand: Attila and the Witch Doctor.

Sure. I see it all the time. Life is like those crude pinball games they usta pack inside boxes of CRACKER JACK. Try and get every silver ball in its dimple without an ass over teacup spill. The talent is normally distributed but the law often creates a fictive world where one ball in one dimple prevails, and ten balls in ten dimples fails.

 

[Busybody]

lotta big woids here

can you sum it up in

#treewordsorless

 

[Busybody]

Its OK!

#I'llwait!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sure. I see it all the time. Life is like those crude pinball games they usta pack inside boxes of CRACKER JACK. Try and get every silver ball in its dimple without an ass over teacup spill. The talent is normally distributed but the law often creates a fictive world where one ball in one dimple prevails, and ten balls in ten dimples fails.

LadyF has a similar thread and the parallel between her case is Obama's use of the radical terrorist intellectual Ayers who bored into the woodwork of academia to continue his reconstruction of a free society to a tyrannical society where his ilk would enjoy greater prestige and the power to influence the leadership in a way that they never could with the masses, for short of their stirring words in time of upheaval and revolution, the masses simply have no need for them preferring much cruder forms of entertainment that match the crudity of their lives.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

lotta big woids here

can you sum it up in

#treewordsorless

Its OK!

#I'llwait!

I'm not really in the mood to speak to the Frodo-Petey-Adre crowd this morning and address their ancillary attacks on everything but the topic of the conversation having no desire to actually read the article, Hoffer or anything else because they, in their crudity and ill-manner, already "know."

 

[Busybody]

backs outa here

to damn #highbrow for (in)Sanity Sam

 

[Busybody]

I'm not really in the mood to speak to the Frodo-Petey-Adre crowd this morning and address their ancillary attacks on everything but the topic of the conversation having no desire to actually read the article, Hoffer or anything else because they, in their crudity and ill-manner, already "know."

what did you do

Swallow a #TeaSoreAss?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

backs outa here

to damn #highbrow for (in)Sanity Sam

At least this version of his left-wing moon bat parody act.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

what did you do

Swallow a #TeaSoreAss?

I'm sober...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

LadyF has a similar thread and the parallel between her case is Obama's use of the radical terrorist intellectual Ayers who bored into the woodwork of academia to continue his reconstruction of a free society to a tyrannical society where his ilk would enjoy greater prestige and the power to influence the leadership in a way that they never could with the masses, for short of their stirring words in time of upheaval and revolution, the masses simply have no need for them preferring much cruder forms of entertainment that match the crudity of their lives.

James Madison's idea was for Americans to make their case before decisions then get aboard whatever outcome was chosen. We don't like to do that these days. Todays decisions are applications for dice rolling by clerks.

 

[Busybody]

I'm sober...

#sadly

 

[Wat_Tyler]

lotta big woids here

can you sum it up in

#treewordsorless

Your sac itches.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/3daff8e7aa91c454be069efde3c85c78/tumblr_ncu8b2IwOj1r2wru3o1_1280.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

James Madison's idea was for Americans to make their case before decisions then get aboard whatever outcome was chosen. We don't like to do that these days. Todays decisions are applications for dice rolling by clerks.

More in the Hamilton mode of thinking the need for an aristocracy to counter the inclinations of the uneducated and unwashed masses.



Funny how the more we educate, the less educated we get out of the expenditure.

I'd talk to Bill Ayers about that tendency and see if it is planned.

Like GruberCare...