Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society - YouTube

Worth a watch.  He says basically watch out for the 'experts.' Sometimes they are called intellectuals. Problem with the state of israel is that the entire place - a dictatorship - is run by bureaucrats, who see themselves as intellectuals, as nearly all Jews do.

"There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs." Thomas Sowell

We are in the midst now of how many total lockdowns? Is it 3? We have been in a general one for so long I don't know where one begins and one ends. It's been nearly a year that we have been required to suffocate under these dirty rags they call masks, even if one is alone in a park at 5 AM. Nobody within sight. Are you going to give COVID to a tree? Do we really need social distancing AND masks?

Right now there are rules against having guests in one's home. Did Soviet Russia engage in tyranny like that? Both neighbors on my floor are in bidud (quarantine) for the 3rd time. Nobody is sick. My entire building has been in bidud. Nobody is sick. These people need to work. I know people that are utterly out of cash. And they are all going nuts, 2 adults and 8 kids cooped up in a tiny apartment.

“You can rigidly enforce only those laws that most people believe to be good laws, that is, laws that proscribe actions that they would avoid even in the absence of laws.”
― Milton Friedman, Why Government Is the Problem

Tonight I am attending a Zoom wedding. You know what happens at a Zoom wedding? There aren't separate rooms for men and women. It's all mixed together. You can't look away. You stare at a screen where half the faces are female. How do you look away from half a screen. The men and the women all chat with each other on screen.

I know of another wedding where they are in a quandary about what to do. It had been planned a year ago. I heard of a school bus driver that yesterday was given a 5,000 NIS fine for driving kids to school. That's some society, you impose ridiculously oversized fines for the high crime of helping children to get some schooling. And guess what, the wicked Knesset is planning to raise the fines. I guess as long as you are bankrupting everybody, might as well go all the way. 

And why? After a year of this so-called pandemic, the scamdemic, even with the bogus data, less than half as many people have died from COVID (really most are just with exposure to COVID and not infected) than die EVERY YEAR from cigarette smoking in israel. Anybody in a panic about the 8,000 a year that die from smoking? Or the 800 from second hand smoke?

Yesterday, the Israel National News reported that former American baseball player Hank Aaron died from COVID at age 86. Actually, he was interviewed two weeks ago as he received a vaccination and he sounded just fine. Said he was fine. No coughing, no trouble breathing. What do you mean he died of COVID? I can't even find any articles saying he ever had COVID, ie. took a PCR test. He more likely died from the vaccination. Listing deaths as COVID is just this thing to do. It's an assumption fed by propaganda. If you sneeze from pollen, people assume it was a COVID sneeze. We are in the midst of a global insanity.

Here's Mr. Aaron getting his COVID shot two weeks ago. Not a cough or a sneeze. Sounded very good for an 86 year old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg9pacnG-TA

I know somebody who went to the post-office yesterday and saw a woman getting screamed at by a barbaric israeli male (redundant expression?) for not having her mask on her nose. (I saw a different barbaric israeli male yelling at a woman about garbage cans two weeks ago.) Then the police came to the PO because some moser called them on account of somebody not wearing a mask. Can you imagine losing your olam haba over that? You think these rags on your face do anything other than make you sick from breathing in your own dirty carbon dioxide? It's theater. Try to get the police to stop bicycles racing down the sidewalk. No interest in that, but masks? Oh, that's serious.

Thomas Sowell talks about how intellectuals have never had more power in history. And intellectuals are not held accountable from the consequences of their influence. 

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World - Full Video

"I am obliged to confess that I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or knowledge or generosity or even the affability of the Harvard faculty: but because I greatly fear intellectual arrogance, and that is a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise." William F. Buckley