Is it time to question those who are paid to think?

Question

Who’s in charge?
I feel that educated idiots who have no real grip on reality or real people are being paid to think.
Undermining centuries of culture and placing unrealistic pressure on the youth of today.
Their prudish and unsubstantiated moralistic jargon has brought about more social problems than they have fixed, placing pressure on families and individuals to act life out of a book of instructions. Rather than relying on their inbuilt sense of judgment and values to guide them through life.
Is it time these social working Doo Gooders took a step back

Answer 1

This is interesting actually. In most Native American cultures, it was in fact the chief (ruler) of the tribe who had the shabbiest tent, lowest supply of food, and least number of horses.

The theory being of course: His JOB was to provide for the tribe FIRST. He was only elevated by the strength of the weakest member of the tribe.

I wonder...what would happen if national leadership was voluntary? Not subsidized.

It follows that the ones running for would be those actually interested in the better good of the nation I would think.

...or stay at home mom's looking for something to do.

Not a bad choice for the ballot I would think.

Or perhaps that is too radical for the more progressive nations.

I dunno.

Answer 2

Not sure to whom you are referring?


It sounds like you are talking about the religious Right, but who can be sure with your vague allusions to "Their prudish and unsubstantiated moralistic jargon has brought about more social problems than they have fixed, placing pressure on families and individuals to act life out of a book of instructions"

"Rather than relying on their inbuilt sense of judgment and values to guide them through life."


Umm, since WHEN are values inbuilt? No-one is inherently moral or valued or whatever. Your entire perception beyond the purely physical is a social construct. How you evaluate data is completely a result of your cultural training.


"Is it time to question those who are paid to think? "

Since when HAVEN'T they been questioned??

I don't know of ONE thinker or THeorist whose thoughts haven't IMMEDIATELY been critiqued , discussed dissected or chewed over...maybe you just need to immerse yourself in schooling a bit more, you'd see. I sense a high level of anti-academic/intellectual bias in your post...

"Undermining centuries of culture "

Who do you think created culture and how is it being undermined?
Whose culture?

Answer 3

without spewing philosophical rhetoric, I trust that in asking the question you actually know the answer---therefore the question is rhetorical----BUT the answer of course is: IT IS ALWAYS time to question those who are paid to think!!!!!! If we did not do this we would still belong to England---as it stands history has repeated itself and alas we are once again at odds with a king george.

Answer 4

You can't really rely on the best answer for you when someone is paid to think. It has to be a "hobby" or a passion.

Answer 5

If you are the one paying the "THINKER" then you have the power and right to question- otherwise leave the subject to the philosophers.

Answer 6

Who is this? Bill O'riely or Rush limberger