Just because the Big Media Scientist Club is like that does not mean that most educated people are!
Most educated people are like me and my dad!
Most educated people are loving, warm, humor-filled, joy-filled people just like the rest of us!
Trust me, my Dad is a professor, my aunt and uncle are genetic scientists!
And they are some of the most fun, warmest people I've met!
Just because you see the Big Media Scientist Club acting stupid does not mean that most intellectuals are like that!
Trust me, if there is one thing that scientists like to do, it's disagree, and debate just to make sure that they aren't blindly following the wrong path!
And furthermore, scientists are as warm and human as the rest of us- just like the guys on Big bang Theory!
I know many educated people that are the kind of guy that you would meet in a bar and have a conversation with- only educated!
(And I wouldn't bet that those guys down at the bar are all uneducated, either!)
We are friendly shmos who like conversation just like you!
You never see that side of us educated people in the media, save only for on Big Bang Theory... but that's us too!
And there are plenty of us who disagree with plenty of things that the Big Media Scientist Club supports!
No one dislikes an intellectual snob more than me, and I'm educated!
I keep my own Great Books scheme that they would be shocked by!
I place Spielberg movies- E.T., not Schindler's List- among great literature!
The film equivalent of great literature has to be called something!
And you know what? The Steven Spielberg who made E.T. and the George Lucas who made the original Star Wars trilogy went to college!
Plenty of educated people like E.T. and Star Wars!
We are not limited to what the Big Media Scientist Club makes us out to be!
We are not limited to what the corporate media makes us out to be anymore than you are!
Just wanted to let you know!
Just because you're suspicious of the Big Media scientist talking heads does not mean you have to be anti-intellectual! For if there's anything we intellectuals like to do, it's argue with each other and disagree, so if you oppose something that the Big Media Scientist Club is pushing that you don't like, there just might be one of us who is against it- or many!
Yes, we are pretty much united on a few things, like evolution and climate change. But then again, these are things with an awful lot of evidence going for them that have been tested and debated over and over and over again by now.
But get together a dozen intellectuals, and you will get a dozen different viewpoints on politics, on philosophy, on what books should be on a Great Books list
And you will get a dozen intellectuals that don't like the hoarding of information that the Big Media seems to love!
And you will get a fair number of intellectuals that don't like the Big Media fearmongering!
And you get a dozen intellectuals together, you will get at least 20 different viewpoints on history and society!
Don't let people make you think that you have to choose between being a fearmongering intellectual snob and being a climate denier!
For if you get a dozen intellectuals in a room, you will get 30 different points of view!
As George Harrison said, think for yourself because I won't be there for you!
And yes, you will find educated people who believe in God. They're called philosophers- by the eastern, older definition of philosopher, the one that they hold in the Vatican and in India! There are lots of them in the Vatican and among the Buddhist community, among many others! Tolkien was one!
Yes, if you believe in God as an educated person some people will call you a freak.
If you believe in God and believe in kindness, they will call you a freak. We freaks need to stick together. For it's up to us to save civilization by educating civilization.
Civilization needs kindness. And the despair that comes from blunt materialism has no future. We were meant to joy, not despair!
And you know what? If you believe in God and kindness as an educated person, 300 years ago in China or India or Istanbul, they wouldn't have called you a freak.
They would have called you normal.
In Paris 800 years ago in the High Middle Ages they would have called you normal as well.
And above all, we intellectuals are just as much warm, fun-loving people as you are!
We love warm humanity, we love conversation and getting together with friends! Just like they do on Big Bang Theory!
Just wanted to let you know!
I have had more than my share of private rants against the Big Media Scientist Club myself!
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson