knowledge, wisdom, and elitism

[kdawg860]

what would happen if you were extremely well educated, and almost everyone else wasn't?  if you realized everyone else was not thinking right, did not have a clue about what they're talking about, and were just plain ignorant due to their poor education, what would you do?  how would you view them?

back in ancient greece, socrates taught his

Comments

[arebelwaltz]

Speaking from multiple avenues of personal experience, I don't think you need to feel frustrated at a lack of dialogue. The biggest reason people don't want to talk about economics isn't because they're stuck in a certain way of thought; it's because they haven't been prepared for the discussion culturally, academically, or personally. In the same way, I wouldn't want to spend any time talking about basketball or the inner workings of jet engines (though a more proper parallel is politics, or general philosophy). Most people just don't have an opinion on the greater questions of economics and don't see a reason to bother having one

[kdawg860]

i would agree completely that i seem to be equating disagreeing with the "scholarship of liberty" with ignorance as intolerant, except everyone i've talked actually have not studied free market economics. i've studied both government-intervention economics and laissez-faire economics, and i am 99% convinced after critically looking at both that freedom is the only path to prosperity. and no this is not at all the style i would write if i were to try to start a dialogue. i actually don't expect a single person to read this. except maybe you and one or two others, which is why i write the way i do here. when i do talk to people it's in a much more inquisitive approach and i get a great discussion going until after much logical and deductive reasoning leads to what disproves the other person's beliefs, they might respond with, 'i dunno' or 'hmm i simply disagree'. they dont want to change their beliefs for various reasons. i wasn't intending to start a discussion with what i just wrote, but if you'd like to i would love to have

[kdawg860]

oh and the people ive talked to are: regarding education, public school teachers; regarding economics, friends who've majored in economics at ucla and berkeley, regarding the health industry, friends who are in med school or pharmacy school. they seem very willing to discuss them, theyre just not ready to change their long-held beliefs. if they're not ready for those discussions regarding those topics then i don't know who is. it's hard to find people who are truly open-minded.

[arebelwaltz]

I understand. I honestly don't have the wherewithal to have a debate over LJ (partly because I'll get way too into it and partly because I'm probably not that qualified to represent a policy position in a debate), but I do feel like I need to comment that your questions and terminology seem loaded. I wouldn't even consider the American Revolution of 1776 a success in most ways, for starters