“intellectuals”, with their entitlement & privilege, ought deign to intervene…
Perhaps some people find the cloying class-based-“superiority” in that to be nauseating.
The question is a fundamental misframing:
It is integrity, not “the privileged upper-middle class who identify with their exclusively-more-valid intellect”, as “intellectuals” ought be unpacked to,
it is integrity which is the needed chisel, right now, & since mainstream “journalism” sold-out, it is Journalism, with a capital-J, which is the required antidote.
I remember seeing people from the Philipines reporting that Marcos’s election was via district after district reporting 2/3-votes for Marcos … invariantly.
NO “journalism” picked that up, as a fake election??
Only the 1st few results showed chaotic variability.
There is NO Journalism-with-a-capital-J left. It’s ALL “owned” or “pwned”, now.
The pushing of normalizing gaslighting, altering framing, eradicating actual-opposing-to-corruption, etc, all of it serves corruption, now.
I remember seeing the photos of The Guardian, showing how they systematically minimized Netanyahu’s “Israel”'s genociding, while speaking openly about Russia’s…
That isn’t Journalism, that is “journalism”.
Integrity’s more-fundamental than intellectualism.
Class-based-“validity” can go eat rocks.
For all who claim that class-systems are inherently-wrong: parent-child is THE fundamental class-system.
Class-systems are inescapable.
Class-based “validity”, however, isn’t.
Nor is the prejudice+pretence.
Honestly accepting, honestly valuing, honestly collaborating-with, people of different classes, in our combined-committing, would be … too much to ask, of class-based-“validity” people.
As one Sun Media writer noted, years ago, the condescension in the middle-class for working-class determination, is drenching.
That absolutely is true.
Cracking prejudice, including class-prejudice, takes visceral-experience, not more class-segregation.
You CAN’T get people who grew-up in “prep” schools, with their prejudices, to accept “their inferiors” as valid.
Therefore class-segregated education is a strategic-enemy of our viability, & the Scandinavian system whereby EVERYbody goes through the same public-school-system, is right: NO class-segregation permitted.
It’s always deeper than the pretences “cartoon” the issues to be.
& the real antidote always costs segregated-privilege’s habit deeply.
& we automatically balk at that, because our “identity” is wrapped-up in our cultural-habits.
But … this-century will enforce enough destruction that IF humankind earns transforming into being-viable, THEN that adapting will have to have happened.
Either that, XOR humankind can do its “tantrum/pogrom” until there’s nobody left, & then … universe will just move-on.
All our ego’s narcissism, all the “G-D revolves around ME!!” delusion, like all narcissisms, like “intellectuals” narcissism, all of it means nothing, to universe-itself.
The error is that we mistake different-specialization “classes” for “validity”-classes: THAT is pretence.
THAT is anti-viable.
Growing honest about that SOON would be wise, but … would go against habit, & that … won’t happen without a fight.
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The idiotic oversimplification of this concept:
he forced regime-change in Venezeula without ANY, didn’t he?
Each context is its-own self.
Pushing dumbed-down narrative “truth” doesn’t help.
Because the Iranian gov’t occupies specific buildings, in a specific city,
whereas the Houthis … never had a capital-city, let-alone a palace,
it can’t map honestly.
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