This is the #delusional nonsense that passes for #intellectualism on the right. The #insurrectionists were tried by juries of their peers based on the well-established trial rules. After being found #guilty, they were sentenced by impartial judges, many who were appointed by #Trump. And their sentences were significantly lower than the guidelines called for. People like #Palin don't care about the facts. They just want to be right, and they're happy to lie about it.

https://radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/

Probably an #unpopularopinion but I think #cunkonearth is the wrong thing to do in this age of #anti #intellectualism / #antiintellectualism.

#Historian, #Russia specialist and anti-#Putin #activist, #OrlandoFiges (‘A People’s Tragedy’) maintains that the #intellectualism of the moderate #Bolsheviks (eg Kamenev) prevented any pressure or authority being applied to Lenin’s de facto dictatorship by the end of 1917 in the immediate political aftermath of the October Revolution. Worth pausing on that thought. The #Intellect v. the will to #Power

"The distortion of “accessibility” is evident through the prevalence of political education via memes, as well. Online, slides of bright words on carefully picked colorful Canva app backgrounds or a sassy 69 seconds or less AAVE spouting breakdown of current events becomes a substitute for historical and dialectical materialism. Nothing needs to be cited, it just needs to be emotionally appealing. So one can engage in hashtag activism and make claims about nations in the crosshairs of western imperialism without providing anything more than thoughts and opinions on the matter. They are not required to make a full argument, provide primary sources or define anything. But because it is made “accessible”, it is taken in as fact and spread around like wildfire."

Reject Anti-Intellectualism - Hood Communist
https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/12/08/reject-anti-intellectualism/amp/

#intellectualism #antiintellectualism #reactionarism

Meritocracy's very structure selects for the bureaucratic mentality; might embracing the whims of chance, by lot or by blood, be a better way?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/11/26/accident-of-birth-a-feature-not-a-bug/

This post's featured image is Edmund Blair Leighton's "A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne".

#aristocracy #nobility #bureaucracy #democracy #society #history #academia #intellectualism #freespeech

@aallan Thank you for this glorious piece of cultural history.

One of the many reasons I’ve been enjoying this community so much is the depth of intellectual capital.

In many parts of the western world, the world intellectual has become a slur. In this corner of the social media world I feel otherwise

#intellectualism #expertise