![]() Donald Trump famously boasted about how he “love the poorly educated” more than those stuffy headed liberal technocrats. Buckley, Jr., famously said he’d rather be governed by the “ first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.” In his book Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges, Robert Bork snarled at the “new class” of liberal intellectuals who despised the mere presence of any conservatives within their midst. Sometimes they can even run in the opposite direction by romanticizing the intellectual’s supposed opposites: uneducated masses (at least as long as they don’t want progressive change, in which case ordinary people swiftly become Burke’s ‘swinish multitude’). Everything turned to disorder.Įver since then, conservative writers have looked with contempt upon intellectuals who are critical of the right’s preferred politics. The servants turned against their masters, soldiers against their officers, the “swinish multitude” against the aristocracy. ![]() On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman…”Īs authority was radically questioned in the name of liberty and equality for all, the sublime complementary hierarchies which bound society together were dissolved. All the super-added ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked, shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. “ ll the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. A result of their pretentious scribblings was that Their arrogant confidence in the power of their own reason to both apprehend and remake the world had transformed itself into an insurrection against all the vested powers which had ordered the world. In Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke denounced the “leaders of the legislative clubs and coffee-houses intoxicated with admiration at their own wisdom and ability with the most sovereign contempt of the rest of the world.” These “literary caballers and intriguing philosophers” had stirred up nothing but trouble. Stop it.”Ĭourtney Kirchoff, Louder with Crowder, “Dear High School Students: Don’t Go to College. We’re talking about you people who think gender studies with an art history minor is a good decision. But we’re not talking about doctors, lawyers or chemical engineers here. No, they’re probably not more valuable than a medical degree. Trade schools are far more valuable than earning a degree in Art History. Or the travels you’d like to embark upon. Think, instead, of that house you’d rather be living in. It’s tempting to think about the swanky parties where you may one day be swilling expensive wine and waxing on about whatever useless major you took. ![]() ![]() But that knowledge will not pay your rent. You might think it’s cool to know about Nietzsche’s übermensch. But have I ever once really applied it toward making money? No. And neither will you. “You might enjoy that philosophy class in college. Roger Scruton, The Meaning of Conservatism This instinct, which I have attempted to translate into the self-conscious language of political doctrine, is rooted in human nature.” “There is a natural instinct in unthinking people-who, tolerant of the burdens that life lays on them, and unwilling to lodge blame where they seek no remedy, seek fulfillment in the world as it is-to accept and endorse through their actions the institutions and practices into which they are born. Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France Not only is human reason, or what is ignorantly called philosophy, unable to replace those foundations ignorantly called superstitions, but philosophy is, on the contrary, an essentially destructive force.” Institutions are strong and durable to the degree that they partake of the Divinity. “Every conceivable institution either rests on a religious idea or is ephemeral.
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