Roger Scruton: Why Intellectuals are Mostly Left
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- Sir Roger Vernon Scruton is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.
In recent years he taught courses in Buckingham University, Oxford University and University of St. Andrews.
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“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
― George Orwell
Or grasp it.
Orwell was a socialist btw
Who was himself a left intellectual, of course. It was his annoyance at the silly things other intellectuals said that made him feel and say that (i have written a book about him, with permission from his son).
Interesting. Can you give us the title?@@RadicalRoots23
Is that why Orwell has been cancelled now?
I've met highly educated people who are brilliant in their disciplines, but are completely ignorant of the world around them. The problem is that they choose small groups of people who think similarly, so they never get another perspective creating feedback loops, or cultural bubbles.
Exactly! That is precisely the problem. I have doctors as my friends, who are very good in their jobs! But they follow the main stream media and politics like sheep, not questioning them!
Yes, a person can be a Phd in one field, but be totally ignorant of the History of The Big Bang Theory.
I find the same statement applies to uneducated echo chamberists as well.
Seem less of an "x group" thing and more of a idiot human thing.
Causes echo chambers and they never have any self reflection. This is why the big sort is dividing america so hard
Yes.I would add to that ……that I have known several intellectuals and not a single one of them had an ounce of common sense!
Intellectuals are people who have become so gifted at mental gymnastics they can talk themselves right out of reality all together.
You described an 'academic', not an intelluctual.
@@craigwalton8241potāto/potăto
Making a decision solely based on a left or right choice without considering the underlying complexities of a problem isn't necessarily an intellectual approach. It's important to critically analyze the situation, consider multiple perspectives, and think beyond binary solutions. Intellectual thinking involves exploring different options, weighing their pros and cons, and seeking a comprehensive understanding of the issue at hand. It's all about embracing nuance and complexity!
i wish my brain worked like yours..
Yeah so they’re weighing the pros & cons out, then ending up on the left. Makes you wonder why the right want people to be uneducated & lack critical thinking skills.
Excellent comment!
Great comment!
@garchafpv Haha, I'm sure your brain is amazing. We all have our unique strengths and abilities!
I am definitely not an intellectual: I only realised that this wasn’t about left-handed people 10 seconds in
Well they do say left handed people are on average more intelligent and skilled so I don't entirely blame you
ah but would a less brilliant mind have found such a connection? you don't fool me
You got me.laughing
God love you! Don’t worry, that certainly doesn’t disqualify you from being intelligent!
Wipe with the left, eat with the right
“My favourite definition of 'Intellectual' is: 'A person whose education surpasses their intelligence.'” - Arthur C. Clarke
Hahaha. I call that 'intellegensia'.
@@jesseleeward2359 I think you borrow the term from Thomas Sowell. LOL
We have a devastating narcicism problem in the West too.
People _"left & right"_ (lol) realize at some point in their lifes that they have gone astray maybe for +3 decades of their lifes.
And that some *nonsense* they belived in, is just that - nonsense. Nonsense which also has negative effects on them.
But a narcist who can't deal with the fact that they have not been flawless in their entire lifes, will chose to rather sink with their ship as to change course. Thats the problem.
“Education” can be acquired in better places than university.
When you education surpasses your intelligence it must no longer be called education, it is called indoctrination. It means that somebody more intelligent than you uses his intelligence without imparting it to you but to possess you.
Interviewer forgot which one of them was being interviewed.
It is not a interview it is a talk between to people.
The problem is that too many academic types believe they are intellectuals merely because they have spent lots of money and time pursuing a degree. They live in a vacuum of groupthink, and since all of the other so-called intellectuals they know agree with them, they believe they are justified in their belief and must indeed be wise. Therefore, everyone who isn't an academic like they are must not be smart enough to see what they see.
This is no different than a cult mindset of academics. I'd much rather listen to an uneducated person, who was educated by life and how people are, than someone who has had their nose in the books. As said in the video, real life is crucial on personal belief on concept of truth, and these intellectual types are just speaking a belief of thoughts taught akin to indoctrination as the only way.
@@ezcoreg759 you and your kind are the worst problem of our civilisation.
You hammered that nail! Damn! 😉
There is a tremendous difference between intellectualism and intelligence.
To be fair, there is definitely value in knowing history, for example. It's much harder to convince someone that xyz is evil and you must be right if you can point to numerous times/patterns in history where something very similR happened and x occurred because of it.
The most intelligent people are able to acknowledge that they can be wrong. That seperates them from ideologists.
Ideologue.
" I don't much like ideologues, as they tend NOT to think for themselves"
* Dr. Jordan B Peterson *
but you have ideologists on both 'sides' tbh. i don't think you can reserve that term for just one political side.
@@th3orist Of course but I didn’t do that. Ideology always comes at the cost of reason and practicality. The best thing is to be pragmatic in your views and actions.
@@sheepishmclemmingston5550 He is an ideologue though isn’t he? Atleast a reactionary.
"That idea is so stupid that only a PhD would believe it " said my favorite philosophy professor
Pot head degenerate??? If that's the case then your professor is right, since I understand very stupid ideas quite easily 😊
That's a variation of a George Orwell line.
😂
Stupid ideas are easy for spotting, and I guess in believing in those, but stupid ideas come in many different shapes and forms, I think much more shapes and forms than smart ideas... Stupid ideas can be understood by some half-educated or even some ignoramus if it is easy for understanding, and there are stupid ideas cloaked in cocoons of different layers of complexity, especially in philosophy, so many metaphysics sound very smart, and yet those mean almost nothing or bring nothing new in the table. So I agree, but I must add some stupid ideas can be understood by almost anyone.
@@ozymandiasultor9480 thanks I didn't even notice lol
The host likes the sound of his own voice. Roger is the one who's supposed to be the one answering the questions
Glad for the comment. I kept thinking that I would love to hear Roger speak more, but he kept getting cut off. Seems to be a common experience to impress someone that you admire with your own grasp of the subject. You asked him to talk, please let him do so.
Host Peter Robinson in "Uncommon Knowledge" does the same thing.
HAHAHAHA.......... You really didn't get what this is, it is not a interview, it is a talk between to people about a subject.
My favorite definition of an Intellectual, "A Person who thinks Ideas are more interesting the People", by Paul Johnson.
People like Roger Scruton.
You may wish to change "the" to "than"
@@chopperking1967 correct.
Then I'm definitely an intelectual!
"The hand of vengeance found the bed to which the purple tyrant fled.
The iron hand crushed the head
And came a tyrant in it's stead."
Beautiful ❤️
- William Blake
you mean meet the new boss same as the old boss
@@jackheisterman6731 Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
@@septembersurprise5178 so saith the Shepard so saith the flock
@@jackheisterman6731 In modern times, the self-defined"Right" means "lower taxes for small businesses and individuals" and "accepting the reality of natural sexes and the benefits of the family structure". If we look at the bigger picture internationally that is. These are the only aspects that fully unites a group of politicians and ideamakers that can be defined for example as the Right. While the Right in the USA are against abortion, the Right in Scandinavia and west Europe are pro abortion rights for women. Regarding economic theory, both most of the Right and all of the Left are in favour of keynesian economics globally, whereas the intellectual minority of the Right are exclusively in favour of "austrian" school (stable money value, Hayek, von Mises, M Friedman). In west and north Europe the intellectual Right is also often in favour of atheism and better conditions for science ,while the uneducated Right and the Left worldwide are mostly in favour of islam and/or New age alternativism and/or catholicism and/or lutheranism and/or hinduism.
Thomas Sowell sums it up succinctly;
“If an engineer makes a mistake, for example, and their building collapses killing hundreds, they are ruined.
In the same vain, if someone who’s only profession is being an intellectual makes a mistake and millions die there is virtually no accountability.”
Absolutely true!!
My bad, misquoted him. “People who’s end product are ideas”.
The Frankfurt School comes to mind, but I suppose that doesn’t take a stretch on the imagination 😆
Good observation. He's also one of these intellectuals.
"Left-leaning" intellectuals that praised Stalin's "communism" surely got embarrassed. Likewise, "conservatives" being gung-ho about imperial war and our "capitalism" have and continue to support it.
The limits of the debate are pretty infantile, it's either "capitalism" vs. "communism".
@@johndoily9407 Infantile indeed. How about the government stepping out of the way & we, as a society, engage free enterprise with a moral emphasis on benevolence. This intertwined with individuality & personal liberty & freedom.
Possible? Sure. Likely? Sadly, apparently not...
@@johndoily9407 I believe it's because pure capitalism or pure communism are easier to understand and sre ideological. Both fail pragmatically therefore fixedness on the theoretical of the systems end in ruin. When their systems fail they the politicians pay the media for good news. Consider that a milestone for economic and societal regression
"When all the stupid people think they're right, you get what's left."
-me, just now
Where should I go? To the left where nothing's right? Or to the right where nothing's left?
Someone mentioned that ; “ The more school you have ; you loose touch with reality, and would be hard to see the common sense around you .”
As a chemist PhD student, something that has been increasingly clear to me over the years is that "common sense" is a pretty weak cheat for truly understanding reality. It evolved to make us survive, not to bring us any truth.
*lose*
I said that for the last 40 years. Wrote books but do not mention titles because the comment will be deleted.
It very likely will be deleted anyway.
@@k8aik8ai You are one of those "intellectuals" and had to show it.
Very likely the person who wrote the comment speaks a few more languages and English is not his native language.
You "Intellectuals" are not only incompetent, you are miserable characters as well.
That someone is clearly the one who is out of touch. School is a place of learning, and learning creates more capable people. An educated population has always created a better society. Take a look at everything around you, from the clothes you wear to the fridge keeping your food cold. It was all engineered and designed to help you live a better life. The reason you have GPS on your phone is because people who spent a lot of time in school. The reason you are so well protected in America is because of people who spent a lot of time in school designed and built the most advanced weapons humanity has ever seen. If we stop spending time in school, other nations WONT, and they will pass us in knowledge. So I say this again, your someone is clearly the one not in touch with reality!
The true mark of intelligence is the ability to uncover the false assumptions of an argument.
I was one of the intellectuals in my school till I discovered real life and grass hahaha
I would modify that statement to be "the false assumptions of your own argument." Critical thinking requires one to be critical of their own thinking.
@@mattolson1760 The statement is about an argument; whether that argument be a personal one or not is irrelevant to the statement’s premise. No need for modification.
@B E Motivated reasoning? It is much easier to spot the false assumptions in another person's argument, especially when you don't agree. Without the ability to spot the flaws in your own arguments first, how can you know that your attempts to undermine an argument you don't agree with aren't a function of motivated reasoning, based on your own false assumptions??
@@mattolson1760 You’re begging the question. Let me try again. Here’s my statement: “The true mark of intelligence is the ability to uncover the false assumptions of an argument.” Notice that it states, “an argument”; the use of an indefinite article makes the statement generic. Whether the argument is a personal one or no, it has no relevancy; it applies equally to one’s own arguments as it does to another’s. Socrates would say that he was aware of his own ignorance, and his method (the Socratic method) purposed to expose the fallacy of an argument(s).
_“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”_ - George Orwell
Orwell was a socialist. For a time at least.
@@segmentsAndCurves for a time sure, but he was very jaded with its execution, which never lead to anything he would describe as socialism.
Orwell never said that.
Want to know why libtards are soo predictable? They're nothing but a dead bygone era of brainwashing created by cccp of ussr back in 1940s because commys knew they were losing. So they made a program to turn USA into communistic genocidal maniacs. Look up 1991 riots which was merely a culmination of decades of genocide against us asians who vote republican because we saw first hand of your so called liberal and socialism ideals first hand in our nations ravaged by your retarded ideology. You libtards are racist, narcissistic, genocidal maniacs, pedophiles, and baby killers. 2020 you guys murdered many babies for sure and don't forget 1991. I was there you genocidal maniac. With billions of humans if you're worried about offending anyone, you end up not being able to say anything at all
Liberals so stupid they don't understand air is made of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% Hydrogen with 0.05% CO2. To top that off, 99.999999999% of 0.05% of CO2 comes from microorganisms. Every square inch of Earth is microorganisms. Why do you put food inside freezers? Cold temperatures prevent bacterial growth. Same thing with Earth. Temperatures go down, bacterial growth goes down than CO2 goes down and vice versa. Look at any global temperature graph of Earth in billions of years. Temperature always had cyclical change. Always!!. Liberals soo stupid they don't understand what the sun is, which is a fusion reaction of two different isotopes of hydrogen tritium and deuterium overcoming nuclear bonds with gravity, which is extremely inefficient and causes temperature to change. With billions of humans if you try to make something that offends nobody you end up with nothing.
Great video thanks for posting
Thomas Sowells comments on this exact same question are solid and satisfying in my opinion. Worth checking out
The interviewer was more concerned about making his point of view than to let Sir Roger speak out his mind…
It is a mark of a learned man that he can entertain a thought without accepting it.
This is the why I love shitposting, not all expression needs to be explicit, especially once you know what you stand for and where to defend it
@@DarkJak This.
I can entertain a thot without accepting it ^^
@@Ethercloud hahaha I get it.😂🤣
One of the smartest things I have ever heard.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
And the left create the worst problems
@Red Levantinist that's scary
@Red Levantinist I don't read propaganda, neither should you
@Red Levantinist no, just not propaganda.
@Red Levantinist resistance members are too politically involved. A person which doesn't have an opinion on politics but only goes on facts sure doesn't write propaganda.
Being an intellectual has nothing to do with left, right or centre of a political spectrum. If someone understands that these political divisions are created artificially, then he is probably an intellectual.
Yeah but even people who acknowledge this tend to be biased towards where they think the artificiality comes from. Very few people could actually reliably be designated as centrist, because the Overton window shifts regularly. So almost everyone has a political alignment as long as they’re educated on politics and social concepts. Most people who believe political division is artificially made believe that their ideas are objectively more rational and benefit society the most, and so the side that disagrees with them principly is artificially created to sway people from their own side
Being an intellectual means knowing that the science evolved a lot since 1790, and every single discovery debunked Adam Smith. Being a rightwing dimwit means believing that free market / small government can work and can be stable, despite all the evidence of the opposite.
The point is that “ intellectuals” generally fall on the left. Being a leftist is a side effect of thinking a lot and doing nothing of any importance. College professors for the most part sit at the very bottom of society in my estimation as the lowest most useless turds I can think of.
I found it amusing that he referred to what he sees as the self-congratulatory nature of the Left and then seamlessly, and unironically, congradulates those who, like him evolved past the intellectualism of the Left to become a conservative intellectual. In a way he reminded me of William F Buckley, in that if not for his sophisticated manner of speaking people would probably openly chuckle at some of his assertions.
You gave me a good chuckle.
What was mind boggling was thr British man’s assertive blanket statement that the left is some how always focused on negativity - this is what an out of touch with reality individual would say when they have zero care to acknowledge what goes on outside their bubble. And the host’s Nazi comparisson was even more mind boggling.. smh
You mean to say he is not the Enlightened One?
/s
He did not in fact congratulate himself, he merely observed it. There is a difference.
@@pippipster6767 you literally just summed up the essence of being smugly self- congratulatory. When you create a position of personal superiority and then justify it by saying "it's simply an observation of reality" as one would when observing objectively observable phenomenas, such as a solar flare, You are by definition being self-congratulatory.
In my opinion even if you want to delve into the political spectrum full throttle it will take a year of watching and listening to get a real sense of political history and current political trends and why they are happening. Understanding the media's role in shaping politics is a college course in itself.
It all happens because we live in a fallen world, full of unrepentant sinners. Everything starts with that underpinning. Try reading the Democratic Party platform, it’s like the devil himself wrote it.
Hence why the media was called the fourth estate!
People need to to spend more time on politics in general
Is it?
@@westb1028 if going by american politics i'd wager the republican party is just as evil in intent as the democratic platform if not less unabashed about showcasing that evil
"Without the concept of 'TRUTH', there is NO REAL engagement between people." -Roger Scruton
...you can engage people by lying to them, right?
@@vebdaklu Sure, but the engagement isn’t Real from the get go. But I hear you.
Real engagement is the product of recreating another's experience within one's self. It has nothing to do with "truth," which only exists as an abstraction.
Modern politics shows us that truth is fairly subjective to the lowest common denominator in intelligence or knowledge of the audience.
The less informed or educated they are, the easier it is to convince them of any 'truth' you want to.
Quite apparent these days.
Only an englishmen with all the comforts of the empire would ever say. There is nothing wrong with the world.
I am Brazilian. And from my pont of view, the world is very wrong indeed.
@@fabricioazevedo2361 , was the world ever right?
Brilliant discussion!
"Just because you can win the argument doesn't make you right."
Or left...
That makes no sense at all
@@hughharper3079 you can be wrong and win an argument and doing so doesn't mean you are automatically on the right, but it's most likely so. "the conservative intellectual doesn't need a reason"(as in you ought to remove reason) proceeds with giving his reason and trying to sound reasonable, so does that mean he is not conservative or not intellectual.
@@hughharper3079 you can “win” (appear to be the victor) an argument and not have really proven whether or not your position is correct.
@@hughharper3079 try to think critically about it.
William Buckley Jr said something like “I’d rather be governed by the first fifty names in the phone book than the Harvard faculty”. I’ve spent my time in academia and I agree with that sentiment
Yeah the Harvard faculty are real communists, lol.
We’d be ruled by Aardvarks.
There is something to be said for the Athenian sortition.
That would be the Athenian prytanies! :D
I wonder if he picked 50 because he had hoped "Buckley" would make it into the first fifty ;) I've got an ant problem in my place that the landlord hasn't dealt with, so I personally welcome our aardvark overlords.
Thomas Sowell is one the most top Intellectual of our time and he's generally on the right not far right but definitely not left
The most dangerous statement is,”That’s not fair.’ The world is neither fair or unfair. The world doesn’t care about the individual. As soon as you deem something as being unfair then you adopt the victim mentality. If you give the victim the power they don’t correct the system. Instead they punish the people they feel victimized them. The victim becomes the villain and the process begins again.
A conservative person that isn’t concerned with fair or unfair can solve the problem because revenge is not the motivation of their actions.
I disagree; politics *has* *always* *been* and will always be petty and violent:
Back in 1994 Clinton banned the AR-15 [ something **no** **one** would do, if they were knowledgeable about firearms] but in 2004 the ban was up for resubmission and Congress couldn’t secure enough votes 🗳️
The AR-15 is only illegal in 10 States today.
Then Trump, overturned Roe 😢 but today, abortion is legal in 21 States and the District of Columbia.
Both liberals and conservatives pass laws based off of their own **deliberately** ignorant, definitions.
If you don’t like abortion, don’t get one and if you don’t like guns, **get** **over** **it** siss 😇🪦
Stop being entitled and figure out how to **safely** operate a firearm ❤ so you don’t need to wait hours for the police to come and “save ME” 😢
"The world isn't fair" isn't a reason to not try to make the world more fair. The world isn't just in many ways, but shouldn't we try to make it so? Just because something isn't currently like a better alternative doesn't mean we shouldn't try to reach that better alternative.
The thing about intellectuals is that they’re so skilled with language that they will make you believe even the most ridiculous things.
I agree, with respect to Scruton !
True. They are so skilled with language, have a greater vocabulary, or delivery that is confident. Commands respect. But...so can a good used car salesman selling a lemon. Everyone must come to grips with their vulnerabilities in buying BS from anyone. In the form of Intellectual...Politician...Activist...Religious Leader...Salesman. ( Not saying all are selling BS, but where are we urged to grow in discernment. Our leaders seldom do, it seems. )
YES.
That’s why I only accept Brendan’s Schaub as a thought leader
What a great summation. It encapsulates Marcuse perfectly.
‘Intellectual Conservatism’: The art and craft of working out what’s wrong; then doing nothing to change it
Bold to assume Scruton cares about the first part.
Also the assumption that doing something means the only way to do anything is using power of the state to do the exact same things they claim to hate over and over.
Facts
@Bronson the Nomad - Thank you!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Well said and well OBSERVED.
Flowers for Algernon laid this out pretty well with one chapter. Experts or intellectuals in a field of study usually only know the ins and outs of the one thing they studied. It’s hard for them to connect the dots to other disciplines or knowledge when they never spent the time to learn it. ie: Neil Degrasse Tyson is a astrophysicist yet he gave bad public health advice stating we didn’t know certain facts at certain times. Well we did, he just didn’t learn the facts for whatever reason, until years later and changed his position
People always look like they know what they are talking about when they are sitting in front of lots of books.
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley
What facts? LGBT exist. All we need to know.
@@leonharrison800 "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
Ayn Rand
@Kirk Bowyer
Ayn Rand was a fool. Without acting collectively,individuals have no rights. Basic principle of Marxism.
@@leonharrison800 Yeah mental illness also exists. What of it?
@@user-ji2on8eg3l very based. Thank you
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
Hightown the green new deal...
So true. Tucker Carlson posed this question on his show the other night, "Can you name one proposal in the Green New Deal that doesn't hand over huge swaths of power to the Demcorat party?". We could pose this same question for every policy the modern Left pushes for.
edit: spelling
@@cranekraken24 I hope you see the incongruence of your argument. If you actually buy into this argument, it should also follow that the suggestions of the right too are a false front for the urge to rule. The quotation doesn't suggest it applies to one leaning or another.
I call them the "save-the-world assholes". Beware of the save-the-world assholes.
@@TejasM14 Sure it does apply mostly to one side. The right mostly wants to be left alone. The left want to use state powered violence to impose itself over those that do not share their beliefs.
I don’t understand why there can only be left and right. What about the middle?
There are people in the middle, they are called sheep.
There is a middle and this country was founded on it . The govt of the US was put in place so that neither party could ever develop a dictatorship or monopoly on the system because everyone should know where that leads . Both sides were more or less forced to meet in the middle whether they fully agreed or not . Our lack of cooperation is pointing us for troubled times especially when the news media outlets and education system is all teaching and promoting only one side and damning the other .
If you are in the middle I ask you, What do you believe, and why do you believe it?
Define what you mean by an "intellectual"!
Define what you mean by "left" and " right".
These are commonly used terms which are not ever clearly defined.
Thomas Sowell has an entire book dissecting this very topic. You’ll never view an “intellectual “ the same way after reading it.
Hilarious you mention him, as this entire conversation reeks of his type of drivel. Please, please, read some critiques of sowells works and don't trap your mind within his echo chamber of baseless thought
@@GruntKF I've read critiques of Sowell. All ideologs.
Who?
@Matt Moss who would you recommend? It's very hard to debunk his facts from endless years of tireless research and observations...
@@GruntKF whats the prob with Sowell?
An intellectual is someone who when discussing a subject can change his opinion if he finds that his interlocutor’s opinion on the same subject is more convincing than his own.
An intellectual can also find fault in their own arguments and belief. Anyone who refuses to accept a downside or grey area of their ideals is not an intellectual. That simply makes them ignornat.
An even more intellectual understands how wrong they are intrinsically, about a great many things, and seeks to constantly get closer to the truth even if an interlocutor never comes along. From that is the font of original thought.
Everybody does that.
@Kirke182 you must be an intellectual
@@Kirke182in a perfect world, that would be a true statement 😔
being intellectual doesn't mean they are smart
While there were certainly some points I disagreed with in this convo, I found it commendable that they acknowledged the shortcomings of both perspectives when coming to their conclusions/making their statements.
Most intellectuals are like book critics who have never written a book.
Which should humble them and make their views more realistic but rarely does. Truth usually takes the fall as ego prevails.
“Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.”
- Sir Roger Scruton
...what is an "unplanned society"? 🤔
@@vebdaklu a free market. one shouldn't be able to 'plan' the stock market
@@sdfjhdfgadfjasdrhasfhzc34 So in 2008 you think they should have left the economy fall off a cliff to protect the free market. We did that in the 30’, turns out allowing the entire financial sistem to fall with insurance and pensions has a fair few consequences. By comparison the 2008 crises, a far worse crisis, had less impact on society over all because the fed intervened. There are no serious economists that think the first version is better, so then do we intervene only when big corporations fail and fuck the poor, how is that a free market. And how is that good for business, if the population is kept poor who are you selling to.
The government created the cliff leading up to '29 and '07. Then more government intervention prolonged the consequences. Yes let that shiht correct itself. Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
Unplanned society: Every petty thing is NOT up for a vote, and individuals do their own thing. Life goes on.
Learn to love the chains that bind you says the man that has never worn them.
I was a liberal lefty for the first 34 years of my life and then i became a libertarian.
Was it because of John Stossel?
Was the case for me
@WWIITrophyLugerPO8 It was Peter Schiff for me lol. I didn't become a libertarian then. But it was the first free market argument I ever heard that wasn't spewed by dumbass conservatives making bad arguments.
When you never work in the supply chain, it's really easy to take it for granted. We won't be able to do any advanced thinking whatsoever if we're dead from starvation. Until I started working in a small business, I had no idea how much effort needs to be done in non-intellectual pursuits just for our world to operate efficiently. Even with all of the advanced technology we have today.
Yes! I think both sides can agree on that one.
Someone has to pull the cart
There are no million-dollar ideas, only million-dollar operations.
The world needs ditch diggers too.
I'll never forget my first day as general hand in a fruit store. After 30 mins I was thinking "Is it lunch time yet?". Ditto for the other times I've worked in manual labor. An eight hour day feels like an eternity.
I worked as an IT contractor for most of my career, on good rates. When I was sixty I started my own business, and discovered how hard it is to make the equivalent of a good salary when you're running your own business. Customers, problems, invoices, selling yourself, suppliers, no such thing as a day off.
Scruton was one of our finest intellectuals and if was awful how they treated him in the last couple of years of his life. God rest my friend.
He was a fucking idiot.
Did you even listen to his advice?
It was:
Stop thinking and you can become a conservative.
🤮
Yes. I'd surmise he's going to need that rest. He's got a lot of learning left to do, all uphill I'm afraid, poor soul.
@@TheFlyingBrain. I dont think he wanted to lean left anymore, he was smarter than that.
This is very sad, thats why trumps and his supporters are successful in their efforts to destroy the USA.
Intellectuals are those who create a better world through love, compassion, kindness, and fairness.
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.” -George Orwell, 1984
As the philosopher David Hume said to the tune of something like, "The greater learned the mind, it fosters greater liberality of the self."
"Disputes are multiply'd, as if every thing was uncertain; the these disputes are manag'd with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain."
- David Hume
Hume was completely wrong according to universities today.
@KL as most universities have replaced Hume with Nietzche and Foucalt unfortunately.
"man, shut the fuck up"
The great philosopher
~Dave Chappelle ~
@@theenclave4981 Do you identify as a progressive?
I wish the interviewer would let Roger Scruton speak
Correction. They THINK they are intellectuals.
Thomas Sowell also posits an explanation for why most 'intellectuals' appear to be Left, at least as far as academia goes, in one of his books. I forget which one, but he says the intelligent people of a Conservative, Right disposition tend to be good at making money, business etc.. and so most choose to pursue those goals. What we're left with is a small number of Conservatives and Right wingers who choose to use their intellect for academic pursuits. On the other hand, intelligent people of a Socialist, Left wing disposition are, obviously, opposed to the idea of making money and the business world, so way more of them feel suited to academia where they get to wax lyrical all day long about the virtues of Socialism and the evils of Capitalism. In short, the 'best thinkers' of the Right don't go into academia precisely because their talents would be wasted there.
I did a really bad job paraphrasing, but it's something to that effect.
If that's the point Sowell made, then I agree. And I love the fact that he's not another sheep repating the same "but the IQ...". There are more than 1 type of intelligence.
Idk. Silicon Valley is a giant exception. I think there is a tendency for the most creative of the bunch to be more liberal. If they are smart, they hire more conservative people to execute a business strategy for their novel creation.
Truth. I also thought about this yesterday and came up with it. But I guess this is just part of the reason.
@@jalander8817 you might be surprised at how many people in the silicon valley acquiesce to leftist ideas. Speaking up is risky business here.
I've never met an intelligent conservative who truly believed what they spouted. There really only are the people at the top, who know what they are pushing is incorrect but helps advance their own selfish goals, and the many more abundant sheep, who all buy into the lies since they don't know any better.
In my estimation conservatism in its best sense has to do with recognizing those things that have value and importance when they are found. Liberalism in its best sense is a quest into the unknown to find something new and better. I would argue that honest conservatives and honest liberals should eventually meet each other in those places that are good and valuable and important. I pray that I am correct and that I will see those honest among you one day with me in the presence of God :) Love you all!
Maybe a true liberal, but the ones that call themselves liberals these days tend to look for all that's wrong with humanity instead of all that's good with humanity and extend on that goodness. From what I've seen and heard from these liberals is.. They are the type to have a beautiful house but because the kitchen is ugly and dated they tear the whole house down..
I realized how necessary liberalism is when my cel phone was stolen. I would have never purchased a new one had the old one not been destroyed but I am much happier with my new one. Liberals destroy and conservatives rebuild better. Make no mistake, however; liberals - being destroyers - should never be allowed to dominate
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Liberalism and conservatism are the historic failure of this system to provide and satisfy the people's priorities and desire for prosperity and social understanding. They both are the servants of the capitalist wealthy class. The attempt at perpetuating this system based on the exploitation of the weak and poor . the present state of American confusion and conflict is the product of both parties failure. War and chaos and environmental catastrophe are the result of the love for this system of profit for the sake of profiting.
"They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness - as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne - and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators. ” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, German, genius philosopher.
If you think you're an intellectual and if you only focus on if you're left or right, you're not an intellectual.
Any mechanic will tell you, don’t fix the parts that aren’t broken. Focus on the things that need mending for the sake of the car and its owner. I guess that thought process makes all mechanics leftists too?
An intellectual is one who has been educated beyond their intelligence.
PhD = piled high and deep
@@sbyrstall So if I get a degree in neuroscience is that worthless? Should we burn all books and go back to caveman times?
@@notsuspiciousguy9425 I can't speak to Steve's casual mock here. I can say that being "Educated and having PHD" does not mean one was presented a format into which one has critical thinking and discovery episodes. More of being spoon fed systems and ideologies that come off as inconspicuous and not suspect. Doctors and I know some even admit they are not taught to question why the system does what it does..but more along just being the best in that system for a bigger paycheck.
Knowledge with wisdom ( knowing the long term consequences) of short term actions can bring into question all education.
@@sbyrstall True. lol
You can read Hume, and similar, and be an intellectual without being an ideologue. It takes skepticism and having a sound epistemology that one continually tests.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools".
Roses are red violets are blue. Shit in buckets. Eat with your hands
Conservatism is literally defined by believing that your current ideas are perfect and don't need to be changed.
You can say anyone is a fool, it doesn't make them a fool. A fool to me is someone who is stubborn and doesn't change their ideas with new evidence. For example, someone who believes in young-earth creation despite the overwhelming evidence that says otherwise... Or anyone who really wants to keep unwavered despite changing history and information... Conservatives.
I don't understand how you can possibly say " the problem with those on the left is that they think they are right and don't take in new information. They consider themselves too wise to learn new things." when that's like... Your entire ideology...?
Are you referring to principled intellectuals, or these anti-intellectuals?
@@emmaccodelol changing history? Conservatives aren't always about not changing. It's about a smaller government, opening up more free market competition, allowing for more freedom of choice. Maybe just don't blindly believe what some po-mo Marxist professor told you once.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in America conservatives are pathologically retarded.
Roger is one of the main reason I study the classics. Amazing man.
The reason is simple: because they’ve never worked as a carpenter, and have never learned what it means to earn an honest living.
Intellectuals just think they are smart enough to know what's best for the world.
Yes, Leftist big-government thinking appeals to their ego and pride. They think that they are morally and intellectually superior to everyone else and therefore all power should be concentrated in their hands. That is also why they despise the limitations that the US Constitution has built into it, and why they (eg. Obama) want to "fundamentally transform" the US government. Their ego also is a main reason why they also rebel against the concept of the Christian God that labels some of their activities as sin and says that they will accountable to God. They want to be their own god and make their own rules.
@@mydh122 You mean rightist governments don't impose their shit on others? All fucking governments do.
So true Bete....let me quote Socrates in agreement: 'It is the wise man who knows when he knows not...and the fool who thinks they know when they do not'.
Mostly intellectuals earn a decent living and can afford well build houses in the right neighberhoods. On the other hand i can only afford a shit building where i am the only white guy on the block and get harrasad by muslims and black drug dealers.
Its gives a whole other perspective on migrants witch are mostly toughts on the leftist side to make them stay. Unless they will move to a place where i live. Then those choises will decrease rappidly.
Intelligence is not the same as maturity, most of them are simply a bit childish.
I have never seen an interviewer who is so keen to hear himself talk, and constantly talking over the interviewee, as this guy.
Distinction worthwhile here: he's good. Yes he interrupts, and possibly too much, but I think he really drills down into the issues the left has. I say this *as* a leftist. We have some problems, and it is rare that I see the challenge produced without hand-wringing, rubbish, or hyperbole.
@@billhicks8 Yes, I like his enthusiasm and he does make good points. But this kind of behaviour is always a bit offputting to me and surely the people he interviews as well.
@@billhicks8 "I say this as a leftist" is a statement I have never heard uttered with pride before 😁😆😅
90% of all talk shows are like that. I found this one kinda shy...LOL.
Is this supposed to be an interview, or is it a conversation? If the latter, then the back and forth was acceptable - though I'd have rather heard more from Scruton.
What a wonderful interview by Roger Scruton of this person.
I'm not familiar with this man, but just by looking at his photo in the thumbnail I somehow knew a british accent was going to come out of him
whenever i question reality, politics, culture, money, man's duality, religion... i always get frustrated at the lack of answers and solutions... seems like every move creates another problem, and there's no way to tell how well solutions play out over a very long period of time.
but at least that makes me certain that giving total power and control to a few people isn't the solution, because they don't have this information either, and will just provide a solution that benefits themselves in the end.
"They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness - as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne - and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators. ” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, German, genius philosopher.
Man we the same here.every time I try to get answers it's just headaches.... that's why I just love life one day at a time.i never used to understand hippies but as time goes and have a friend who is one, I'm starting to think like them in a way.dunno if there has ever even been a black hippie before tho 🤷🏿♂️
Thomas Sowell said it best. There are no solutions, only trade offs.
Just know this, when something bad happens, it's almost always the Juice's fault
Seems to me that we are always fighting against our basic nature. Our tendency to fracture and choose group dynamics over knowledge is the norm and people who attempt to "correct" or control this nature often become the tyrant regardless from which political side they come from. So the pendulum swings from one negative to the other.
Most “intellectuals” are deeply compromised by their need to be perceived as intelligent, which is validated though current social consensus. (Ie media, academia, saying THIS is what smart people think) There’s a reason why in so many breakthroughs throughout history, the prevailing consensus is not initially open minded to the breakthrough but rather specifically hostile to it. No one REALLY wants to consider something new at risk of losing status as a “smart person”.
Bravo buddy. I'm in Northern California near SF and I can't tell you how many times growing up I'd have people so confident they were right that ended up being completely wrong they made me question myself. They didn't bat an eye on being wrong either as something to ponder on. I have had a wild ride seeing the contrast since 2020
Well said. You've hit the nail right on the head. I've taken your idea and reiterated it as the introduction to my own analysis that I've posted here in another comment, which intellectually deflates the views of this so-called intellectual.
Ehhhh no
There you have it smarty pants, very well put.
Universities are creating this kind of person on a mass scale.
We are not lead by intelligence, we are lead by our faith and our hearts. People that want to know everything end up missing the point.
And yet people that want to know everything are also following their hearts, for their hearts are what lead them to the pursuit of knowledge.
The conservatives coping in here due to their insecurity is eye-opening.
In my experience most intellectuals do not want to be told they are wrong but the only way to do that is to reject reality in those cases where they are wrong.
I'd say that's rather a sign of stupidity. Remember, intelligent ≠ smart
That's based on the assumption that they are wrong.
And that's a gratitous accusation rather than a correct understanding of a spectrum of views around complex things.
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I clearly indicated that my argument was based on those cases in which they are wrong not somebody's opinion that they may be wrong....
How long have you had this habit of taking people out of context adding your own fault narrative then proceeding to criticize them for your own made up BS?
Remember that reality does not conform itself to what we think and believe... It is what it is whether we like it or not....
@@GSpotter63 I say that it’s an assumption (read carefully), because, how do you know that they are wrong?
@@-TheUnkownUser
In many cases the facts of the matter can be confirmed....
Just because someone is somewhat articulate with their speech and believes the current popular thing doesn't make them an "intellectual".
Right, it just means they can retain information and regurgitate it. Not very original, and it often comes down to brownie points.
It's the safe way to live life
There were a lot of intellectuals that supported fascism in the 30's. Back when it didn't mean "concentration camps and Hitler", but an economics and civics system in Italy and Germany, they put right up there with capitalism and socialism.
Who's the interviewer? Although he tries to steer the conversation a bit much, I would like to hear more of his thoughts. He reflects a good understanding of Critical Theory, which is something I have been fascinated with. Also, where can I see the whole interview?
An intellectual is not necessarily intelligent.
Don’t confuse education with intelligence
This interview cements that fact. What a pointless waste of time this was, not a single argument for or against either cause. At best, this video is another thing that people with the highschool jock-mentality can send to theri friends to make fun of those who disagree with them, since they fail to notice there is no argument made in the entire video. Just a longwinded claim that liberals are stupid without any explanation whatsoever.
most educated people in todays time tend to be missing intelligence
Education helps but I like to believe that true intelligence is when someone not only learns, but utilizes what they learn.
@@Jay122789
We now live in a world where 'smart' educated people (often young) push lgbtq gender ideology.
So they learned something completely unreal and they are actively spreading it as if it's real.
Sometimes education is miseducation.
@@Boris82 I wouldn't consider lgbtq ideology to be unintellectual but more as a belief. Like, someone can believe in Christian values but still be intelligent, it's the same as lgbtq ideology. Just like Christians, they are trying to enforce their beliefs upon society. And I don't mean that as an attack on Christians, but that's my best analogy.
I can't tell you how happy I am to see these up again! Congrats on your remonitization.
How are you so fast :O
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Intellectuals are usually from the left because they're only book smart and not common sense smart and they don't use facts!
What a treat, missed your uploads ^^
I consider myself a liberal to a degree, and I've enjoyed this channel for a while. I was wondering where it went. At least these political discussions are classy and civilized, unlike the so called leaders of both the left and right.
At the 8:35 mark, he says when he was young, the great thing was to go to a bookstore.
Same for me.
Often, the best books ("The Late Great Planet Earth", or "Coyote" or the SF Novel "CRASH") are ones that I discovered in a bookstore or library, that I did not know existed!
In contrast, I never "brouse" Amazon like I do a Bookstore or Library.
On Amazon, I have to KNOW that a book exists, and THEN I look for it!
06:54 are you saying power corruptes and absolute power does so absolutely?
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" - Romans 1:22
AMEN!
You are an Intellectual Bible Philosopher.
As someone who tends to lean intellectual and used to tend to lean left, I can say for me personally a huge part is that when you lean intellectual you value thinking about ideas way more than you actually spend time dealing with the real world. When you think something through and come up with something that feels like an elegant argument, you become so enamored with the elegance of the idea, that alone becomes enough to convince you that your idea is correct. It never even occurs to you that you need to rigorously test all ideas in the real world. Add on top of that that you are regularly surrounded by people telling you that you are brilliant and that when you take tests you regularly score quite high, and you start buying into your own genius, and it never occurs to you that every day true genius is earned through hard work and questioning yourself, etc. I am definitely ashamed of that. Then it becomes a feedback loop. Intellectuals are pre-disposed to buy theories that either: 1) sound elegant, or 2) reinforce the intellectual and moral superiority of intellectuals. When you are in it, you rarely even realize you are doing it, but the ego is real.
While I do believe there is value in ideas, that value is only real when it is also tested in the real world. In the early days, testing in the real world was more valued, I think. Most ideas were close to someone who had actually tested it. But as time passes, the value of testing has not only been lost, I think it is now demonized. This all comes down to preserving the tho if intellectuals so they can continue to feel superior and justified. It never occurs to intellectuals that the what I’ll call tinkers have way more valuable and accurate ideas because they are regular dealing with actual reality. Does that mean there is no place for intellectuals in society? Absolutely not. The best inventions, discoveries, organizations, plans, laws, etc. are made when intellectuals and tinkerers work together. Intellectuals aren’t superior, but they also aren’t inferior. They are just different. However, when they start seeing themselves as superior to the tinkerers and also separate themselves as much as possible from the real world they suddenly become worse than useless to society, and when we make the mistake of giving them power - power to educate, power to make the laws, etc. - that’s when they start to do real damage to society.
Its better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
'lean intellectual ' is quite possibly the least intellectual thing you can say. So smug 😂
Well said! "Don't confuse intentions with Results."
@@scoon2117 you might over-thinking that. "Lean intellectual" just means they fall on the side of theory and thought in a formal setting more than through hands-on experience and life lessons.
'If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain'
Joseph S Alpert
[An intellectual conservative is] "Someone who articulates the real reasons for not having reasons, but just feeling and doing what's right" whereas "it's not often you find someone on the left who looks around and finds things that he loves, it's always something that's gone wrong, something that is even hateful". Discuss (without using the word 'bollocks').
Not actually true. Some of slowest people I ever met were leftwaffe
You know, this is really just an old principle being put in modern terms. Our culture used to call this "being thankful," and it was important to us to be grateful for the good things in our lives, no matter what hardships we faced. If there is one thing that the critical theorists lack, it is gratitude.
Is the glass half full or half empty... that's the question indeed.
In fact it feels like critical theorists are expressly UN-grateful for the good things in our lives. Modern political philosophy is all about "stolen indigenous land", "systemic racism", "generational inequality", and any other buzzwords you can think of to describe this basic thesis: that western civilization should be ashamed of its own existence, and must dismantle itself to right this wrong.
"Give up everything your ancestors built for you and die in a ditch", they say.
@@THEWittebol The glass is always full. Half of it is water and half of it is air. Though the air is invisible, it is far more vital than the water.
They lack wisdom.
@@THEWittebol Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Whooooooosh!🤦🏿♂️😁👍🏿👋🏿
I really appreciate how this video opens. Scruton starts by telling us that his beliefs are based on him spending his whole career trying to justify his opposition to some people he found uncouth. That says everything you’d ever need to know about someone.
Indeed, and when one compares the May '68 students/workers in France with today's uncouth (BLM/Antifa/Trans) rioters - they seem positively cultured and dignified!
So he spent a lifetime trying to find the opposite belief to some beliefs that he also didn't know, But that he didn't like based apparently entirely on the actions of the holders of those ideas.
Scruton is a fraud and a joke.
@@phillheth exactly. Amazing that he tells on himself immediately.
That struck me too. Dude just said he saw some protesters being rowdy in the streets(and to give him credit, French people protest like no other that I know of in the western world) and was like, "Every belief I have is now the opposite of whatever I think they stand for". So shallow and stupid.
I also like the "real reason for not having reasons." So, basically, right wing intellectuals just try and justify doing stuff based on their random feelings.
@@alaintremaine3302 what if he'd come across the Jan 6th insurrection?
To become an academic intellectual you will most likely grow up easy and lack hardships, both of which would make you more prone to conservative ideas. Also intellectuals are oftentimes state dependent. In the west the state departments are left leaning for a long while now, so those are the ones you would need to appeal to. I would like to see this study redone in a country that is right leaning throughout the institutions that matter for a while.
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Any of the Islamic countries are extremely far right, Asian countries middle right. Extreme right results in poverty and corruption. China is middle right also, not left despite it's description of being communist. Extreme left becomes extreme right as soon as it gains power.
Lmao
Quite the opposite. Lack of labor leads you to socialist ideas, because you "deserve" to be fed intead of having to work for it.
@@erickmoya1401 Exactly what I said no? I am german so my grammar might be funky. I meant that hardships while growing up bring you towards conservative ideas later instead of becoming an academic intellectual. The latter dont like work because they have no sense of honor towards being productive.
Because they were intelligent? Problem today is that a lot of people think they were intellectuals but they aren't.
I wouldn't call those professor's teaching gender studies in university intellectual.
Never confuse education with intelligence.
Really, NEVER?
@@julianwynne8705 The left will never under stand.
@@julianwynne8705 Yes. Intelligence is self-evident when challenged; as pride, ego and hubris yield towards greater understanding.
Education when challenged relies solely on its own credentials. Pride, ego and hubris are the main motivators as being 'incorrect' is a threat to the veracity and certification of being 'educated'.
Educated will retain falsehoods in order to preserve their status. Intelligent people seek greater understanding despite potentially being humiliated and discredited.
Don't be educated, seek truth.
Never confuse Christianity with love
@@user-gu7lv9gk8m Never take religious advice from someone who's barely opened the book.
What do you get when a false cause fallacy, an assumption argument fallacy, and a circular fallacy have a threeway? The title of this video.
The interviewer is not there to ask Roger questions. He's there because he's full of himself and loves to hear himself talk.
I totally agree. He’s not responding at all to the answers, he’s formulating his next high-minded quote and topic sentence. Aggravating in the extreme.
"Look at me, I quote poets!"
It isn't an interview it's a conversation
Well, he's there because he agrees with the idiocy Roger is mentioning.
Yeasir
Fear not the man who does not know,
For that man can think and grow,
Fear the zealot who "knows" what's true
For there is no horror he will not do.
Intellectuals who do not take the time to study monetary and economic history tend to lean left in my opinion.
I like to call myself a nerd and my soul makes me initially lean left. The more I read history, though, the more I realize what I was seeking actually leans more towards libertarian, constitutional republican
What I don’t get about anyone claiming that “the left” is wrong or that “conservatives” are wrong, is how you don’t see that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
We beed to conserve liberal values like freedom of speech and religion, while also working towards a better interpretation of capitalism.
I disagree. Academics yes...intellectuals ? No
Exactly. When mental lightweights have no intellectual niche so they resort to something they can't be dominated on. Something which intellectuals will not agree with. Which translate to them dominating their on field not because they have the best minds for it, but because the best minds decided it's freakin looney.
Hippy subverters~~~~
It's a lust for mans praise, that acceptance of Satan's lie, and the darkness that follows into degeneracy of anarchism/communist chipping away at society as a Christian moral based society.
You're correct. They're just "pseudo-intellectuals".
MrHat
Respected British anthropology professor, Dr. Edward Dutton, has demonstrated that “LEFTISM” is due to genetic mutations caused by poor breeding strategies.
To put it simply, in recent decades, those persons who have leftist traits such as egalitarianism, socialism, multiculturalism, homosexuality, perverse morality and laziness, have been reproducing at rates far exceeding the previous norm, leading to a recent explosion of insane, narcissistic sociopaths in (mostly) Western societies.
Conservative Intellectual with a British Accent on RUclips: "It's all about the feels really, now isn't it?"
cope and seethe
Think whatever you want. Just do it critically and with genuine intellectual honesty.
The 5 Steps to Critical Thinking:
What is critical thinking?
In general, critical thinking refers to actively questioning statements rather than blindly accepting them.
Critical thinking results in radical free will.
1. The critical thinker is flexible yet maintains an attitude of healthy skepticism.
Critical thinkers are open to new information, ideas, and claims. They genuinely consider alternative explanations and possibilities. However, this open-mindedness is tempered by a healthy sense of skepticism (Hyman, 2007).
The critical thinker consistently asks, “What evidence supports this claim?”
2. The critical thinker scrutinizes the evidence before drawing conclusions.
Critical thinkers strive to weigh all the available evidence before arriving at conclusions. In evaluating evidence, critical thinkers distinguish between empirical evidence versus opinions based on feelings or personal experience.
3. The critical thinker can assume other perspectives.
Critical thinkers are not imprisoned by their own points of view. Nor are they limited in their capacity to imagine life experiences and perspectives that are fundamentally different from their own. Rather, the critical thinker strives to understand and evaluate issues from many different angles.
4. The critical thinker is aware of biases and assumptions.
In evaluating evidence and ideas, critical thinkers strive to identify the biases and assumptions that are inherent in any argument (Riggio & Halpern, 2006). Critical thinkers also try to identify and minimize the influence of their own biases.
5. The critical thinker engages in reflective thinking.
Critical thinkers avoid knee-jerk responses. Instead, critical thinkers are reflective. Most complex issues are unlikely to have a simple solution. Therefore, critical thinkers resist the temptation to sidestep complexity by boiling an issue down to an either/or, yes/no kind of proposition. Instead, the critical thinker expects and accepts complexity (Halpern, 2007).
Critical thinking is not a single skill, but rather a set of attitudes and thinking skills. As is true with any set of skills, you can get better at these skills with practice.
In a nut shell, critical thinking is the active process of minimizing preconceptions and biases while evaluating evidence, determining the conclusions that can reasonably be drawn from evidence, and considering alternative explanations for research findings or other phenomena.
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
>Why might other people want to discourage you from critical thinking?
>In what situations is it probably most difficult or challenging for you to exercise critical thinking skills? Why?
> What can you do or say to encourage others to use critical thinking in evaluating questionable claims or assertions?
Where's the stats for that?
"Of course there is wrong. But there is also beauty and right '
"The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions" - Milton Friedman
yeah its easy in the riches time on earth after left ideas have made it so to become a conservatie to wantit all for yourself again. Back to 999.99 poor humans again thanks
@@theventurousgamer8137bro what?
@@theventurousgamer8137 left ideas do nothing but destroy; see history
@@user-fk1cs2oh5iThere's a difference between education and intelligence; you have neither, "bro".
So evangelical Christians would commit the most harm of all.