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"The pastor from Pennsylvania put it best. On the eve of a trial to determine the legality of a local school board’s decision to teach intelligent design alongside evolutionary theory, the Rev. Ray Mummert, a leader of the anti-Darwin brigade, made national headlines with a statement that cut straight to the heart of America’s culture wars. “We’ve been attacked,” he protested, “by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture.” In an increasingly divided nation, where one is asked to take sides on every issue from the creation of the universe to the first lady’s triceps, it was perhaps inevitable that people should be required to make a stand on the subject of being smart."
"Charles Pierce’s Idiot America is a lively and, dare I say, intelligent study of this ongoing assault on gray matter. “We’ve chosen up sides on everything,” he asserts, “fashioning our public lives as though we were making up a fantasy baseball team.” This new civil war almost always boils down to a clash between intellect and feeling, or what Mr. Pierce labels the Gut. “The Gut is a moron, as anyone who’s ever tossed a golf club, punched a wall, or kicked a lawn mower knows,” he writes. “The Gut is the roiling repository of dark and ancient fears.” The problem is, it currently has a stranglehold on a hefty slice of our major media—talk radio—as well as that traveling circus known as the G.O.P."
"People who believe that the educated intellect should guide public policy are liable to rely on facts, science and logic as their weapons of choice. Their general is James Madison, who, according to Mr. Pierce, “considered self-government no less a science than botany. It required an informed and educated and enlightened populace, or else all the delicate mechanisms of the system would come apart.” Team Gut, however, relies on bluster, superstition and bullying to wage its campaigns. Its field commanders are broadcasters like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, who deploy a battle plan Mr. Pierce calls the “Three Great Premises of Idiot America.” The first of these states that a theory need only sell books or elevate ratings in order to be deemed valid. The second maintains that “anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough.” And finally, a fact is defined as “that which enough people believe. And Truth is determined by how fervently they believe it.”
It's just common sense. Even some conservatives are aware of it.
Just look at the dim-wits who raise to the top in the Republican party - Dan Quayle, GW Bush, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, Tim Allen etc, etc.
You can call the Democratic leaders many negative things but one thing you can't say about them is that they're stupid. Al Gore is a smart guy. John Kerry is a smart guy. Bill and Hillary are smart people. Obama is a smart guy.
It's not a coincident that these dumb-as-rock people are consistently raising to the top of the GOP. Common sense tells you it's because these dumb dumbs are actually the brightest ones in the party.
"it's just common sense" is a rebuttal used when the position being argued is not properly supported. It is a fallacy in that the criteria you use to come to your "common sense" conclusion is based on assumptions, generalizations, and lacks any sort of proper support to establish such a broad conclusion concerning the topic.
You could make a "sound" argument to the issue by taking commonly known facts and then establish a premise to which actually supports your conclusion, but the thing is, you aren't using facts, simply vague subjective evaluations and then applying them as if they were a factual premise to which supports your conclusion.
That is, your argument is not valid, nor is it sound, it is just an unsupported subjective opinion being claimed as fact under the illusion of promoting "common sense".
I don't know about that, I have been laughing at the predictable replies, except one or two actually well thought out posts, that I knew would come about once I read the title and article. Looks like some here need to find that same sense of humor they speak of others not having
Casper
I agree.
If you take anything this clown has to say seriously, you should get a life.
"On Thursday, the University of London Union Senate, which represents 120,000 students, voted unanimously in favor of calling a campaign for the dismissal of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa."
If you take anything this clown has to say seriously, you should get a life.
"On Thursday, the University of London Union Senate, which represents 120,000 students, voted unanimously in favor of calling a campaign for the dismissal of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa."
I attempted to tell that to another poster here but they couldn't get off their soap box trying to prove how smart they thought they were for long enough to realize they were proving the opposite. Not real smart to get played and then continue on even after being told they were, Go figure.
Casper
If you take anything this clown has to say seriously, you should get a life.
"On Thursday, the University of London Union Senate, which represents 120,000 students, voted unanimously in favor of calling a campaign for the dismissal of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa."
Whether you agree with 'this clown' or not, this ^^^ shows the power of PC. If his findings had been different, say white women were the ugliest, would there be such a violent demonstration???
He is clearly Asian, did he say Asians were the most attractive?
I already know mine, 148, it has been enough to get me by in life, take a deep breath and calm down, you don't want to burst anything.
Casper
Casper, please don't post your IQ. People on the board can glean your intelligence from your posts and they are either going to think you are lying or you are conceited.
Hey, those "fruits" are usually more intelligent, educated, and successful than the non-fruit variety. And you definitely have us beat on the "nut" department.
That's a strange statement since you haven't the slightest knowledge with whom you are talking.
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