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Being well read does not make one smart, but does facilitate it to a great degree. Joel Send a noteboard - 02/09/2012 04:32:05 PM
We do have some good intellectuals but there are way too many small mind morons walking around with PHDs and teaching at major universities for my comfort. Staying in school for ten years doesn’t make an intellectual and being well read doesn’t make you smart.

You don’t need a PHD to have a political opinion but that doesn’t mean it is a good idea to go trolling crack houses on voter registration drives.

*shrugs* Restrict the franchise to actual rocket scientists and brain surgeons and it still a safe bet what government we would get.
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Anybody here ever studied the founding fathers of America? Dark Knight - 30/08/2012 07:34:28 PM 914 Views
Slave-owning, mysoginist, wig-wearing members of the landed elite? Bored - 30/08/2012 07:51:33 PM 654 Views
Ha! Yeah, all personal faults aside Dark Knight - 30/08/2012 07:54:13 PM 592 Views
Not John Adams or Alexander Hamilton.....fool! *NM* Anonymous2000 - 31/08/2012 05:18:05 AM 338 Views
No, never, not even briefly. Joel - 30/08/2012 07:57:39 PM 682 Views
What? Nooooo way Dark Knight - 30/08/2012 08:06:30 PM 675 Views
My US history class was an hour long and I always got distracted by a butterfly or something. Joel - 30/08/2012 08:50:39 PM 609 Views
Did you just kinda compare yourself to the founding fathers? nossy - 30/08/2012 08:08:40 PM 717 Views
Not positively, but I have often thought they were a bad influence on me. Joel - 30/08/2012 08:21:48 PM 699 Views
Funny, my reaction to sentences like those is nearly the opposite. Legolas - 30/08/2012 08:11:34 PM 644 Views
Fair point; it is revealing that none of the Bill of Rights amendments have multiple sections. Joel - 30/08/2012 08:39:24 PM 697 Views
You're projecting. *NM* Ghavrel - 31/08/2012 12:48:12 AM 303 Views
I am aspiring. Joel - 31/08/2012 01:09:40 AM 793 Views
As a personal aside ... Nate - 31/08/2012 01:43:45 AM 724 Views
Yes. nossy - 31/08/2012 01:49:41 AM 743 Views
Like I say, maybe I invest too much in online posting. Joel - 31/08/2012 02:02:58 AM 771 Views
Re: Nate - 31/08/2012 02:27:00 AM 744 Views
Re: Re: Joel - 31/08/2012 02:37:35 AM 753 Views
Well nossy - 31/08/2012 02:54:25 AM 758 Views
It does get repetitive too often. Joel - 31/08/2012 05:07:41 AM 767 Views
Doesn't really matter. You're gonna keep doing it. nossy - 31/08/2012 05:16:23 AM 704 Views
Maybe.... Joel - 31/08/2012 05:03:11 PM 753 Views
Re: Maybe.... nossy - 31/08/2012 05:15:52 PM 564 Views
Re: Maybe.... Joel - 31/08/2012 06:18:32 PM 712 Views
You aren't Plato, Burke, or Madison. Ghavrel - 31/08/2012 10:34:22 AM 669 Views
That is why it is aspiration rather than equivalence. Joel - 31/08/2012 05:01:20 PM 632 Views
I'm not so sure you're entirely right. nossy - 30/08/2012 11:06:39 PM 786 Views
I did. They smelled of mahogany and death. They looked scabby and skeletal. TaskmasterJack - 31/08/2012 12:35:44 AM 700 Views
Sounds like you have a job to do. Joel - 31/08/2012 01:11:10 AM 695 Views
Don't forget Hamilton! The creator of the American economy..... *NM* Anonymous2000 - 31/08/2012 05:19:50 AM 353 Views
... and big government. Joel - 01/09/2012 01:54:20 PM 580 Views
I don't really buy that..... Anonymous2000 - 01/09/2012 08:33:28 PM 639 Views
Hamilton loudly and often advocated a central bank, national debt and active federal government. Joel - 01/09/2012 08:41:50 PM 842 Views
I think the entire Age of Enlightenment is fascinating random thoughts - 31/08/2012 06:32:23 PM 604 Views
You realize you just made a great argument for intelligentsia rule, right? Joel - 01/09/2012 01:48:58 PM 708 Views
I would want better intelligenstia first random thoughts - 01/09/2012 02:48:28 PM 777 Views
Ah, the old uneducated>miseducated argument. Joel - 01/09/2012 03:39:07 PM 725 Views
*wonders if we could test* Burr - 02/09/2012 02:45:10 PM 607 Views
no there is a better reason why it wouldn't work random thoughts - 02/09/2012 02:58:18 PM 737 Views
No,no, I was wondering if -we- could test it. Burr - 03/09/2012 04:17:11 PM 650 Views
yeah I am a bit of a cynic *NM* random thoughts - 04/09/2012 03:01:28 PM 307 Views
I expect the rankings would be too subjective for credibility. Joel - 02/09/2012 04:27:32 PM 733 Views
I listen to some of supposed intellectuals talk and I am unimpressed random thoughts - 02/09/2012 02:53:21 PM 641 Views
Being well read does not make one smart, but does facilitate it to a great degree. Joel - 02/09/2012 04:32:05 PM 596 Views
I like the Starship Trooper approach random thoughts - 02/09/2012 05:04:17 PM 700 Views
I run very hot and cold on that one. Joel - 02/09/2012 06:28:44 PM 801 Views
The problem I'd have with that draft for votes idea... Burr - 03/09/2012 04:28:34 PM 714 Views
I am not so sure it would. Joel - 03/09/2012 05:45:39 PM 753 Views
What was that again about "you have a right to your own opinion, not your own facts"? Legolas - 03/09/2012 06:39:01 PM 765 Views
Ah, right; I had forgotten our previous discussion of conscriptions termination in the '90s and '00s Joel - 03/09/2012 06:48:28 PM 694 Views
If you worked with more engineers you might change your opinion on the science degree part random thoughts - 04/09/2012 03:00:16 PM 645 Views
Maybe; I would likely just conclude horse sense is uncommon everywhere, but less so in engineers. Joel - 05/09/2012 12:11:58 AM 554 Views
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