EDU-RATED! (My coinage). Actually, in an ideal INTELLECTUAL - TopicsExpress



          

EDU-RATED! (My coinage). Actually, in an ideal INTELLECTUAL culture, there would be no need for any politically correct remedial legislation or judicial action because the populace- exercising REASON and RESPONSIBILITY- would not engage in any DISCRIMINATORY practices based on race, gender, or other irrelevant characteristics. The need for affirmative action quotas and regulations is evidence of the failure of INTELLECTUALISM- Donald N. Wood; Post-Intellectualism And The Decline of Democracy. To be Rated is to be weighed, valued and ascribed some worth. To be Over-rated is to be over-valued when the worth is lesser. To be Edu-rated, however, in this vein is to be over-rated and over-valued due to scholarship even when worth is lacking! Many are Edu-rated! Each time i listen to native intelligence of locals, the so-called illiterates, i am tempted to overhaul my paradigm as regards what it means to be learned. Today, my only living grandma in the village (actually she lives in Lagos, whatever) displays more cerebral value than our so-called ivory tower jingoists! Education to the latter has truly been reduced to the ability to only read and write. Scholars today, sadly, can ONLY read and write. This explains the pen-manship of shame and sham i see recently on social platforms of those who reckon themselves as Intellectuals! These scallywags boast of scholarship (skilled in the art of penmanship) but their calligraphic skill appears to have toppled their rational and responsibility skills. By Donald Woods standards, they are the excuse for the decline of democracy! They promote all species of racial, ethnic and discriminatory practices and tag it loyalty to their kind. When you dissent, be ready to be called unprintable names. Yet they are Intellectuals! And yes, some are of privileged pedigree. Some schooled (perhaps cooled) in First Rated Universities on the globe, but merely Over-rated. I mean Edu-rated. All issues and discourse are only viewed through their bespoke myopic glasses. Dissent and you are proscribed. Those in whom the Future is not pleased. They are on the Internet, Academia, Interest Groups, Ethnic Groups, Youth Fora, Politics, Separatist Movements, Government and Religion. The Edu-rated! A truly intellectual author opined that, One attribute of post-intellectual activity is the increase in the POLITICS OF VICTIMIZATION. So, those edu-rated Nazists and Jingoists in this Country need to be edu-cated in Intellectualism so that they can teleport from the Dark Ages into the Democratic Age. The sooner they stopped their gospel of hate, division,compulsory secession, victimization and political apocalypse, the better for their them and their unborn potential edu-rated! Democracy indeed is an intellectual concept, and the edu-rated cannot, i say CANNOT, drive it! Selah
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:48:09 +0000

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