re: #268 blueraven

LVQ, I say this as someone who normally enjoys your posting here. But what you have been writing the past few days…I respectfully suggest you should have a long sit down with yourself and re-think your position.

What you espouse reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut Jr futuristic novel where only the elites; engineers and scientist are considered important and are allowed to thrive. (well, except for sports figures)

People come in all shapes, sizes and degrees. Some are right brained and some are left. We need math and science, but we also need art and literature. We need mechanics and plumbers and carpenters too. Each and every one is created equal under God and under the Constitution of the United States of America. And as such deserve all the rights and privileges therein.

But this is not what I am saying at all.

I want to lift all people up through real education. I want to do away with the arrogance that actually thinks being ignorant to a level that the average Chinese seven year old would laugh at Americans is somehow defensible.

Real decisions need to be made by sober analysis, and that is frankly beyond the capabilities of most people, not because they are too stupid, but to lazy and too entrenched in thinking that is OK.

There is nothing wrong with wanting people to achieve their potential rather than wallow in ignorance to the extent that it tears everything down.

I am not calling for all people to be scientists. I am not calling for all people to be engineers or concert musicians or Shakespeare grade geniuses. I am calling for people to recognize that they are not qualified to all things unless they actually take the time to gain basic competency.

As to people’s moral worth, I make no statement at all. However, I utterly reject this “we all have an equal voice” crap.

Does your janitor have an equal voice to a surgeon on medical matters?

Do you really think that the talking head on Fox news has the same weight as a physicist on matters of physics?

Does just some twit at the bar who doesn’t know who Robert E. Lee was have the same merit to talk about US policy as someone who could pass an actual highschool grade education?

Get real here.

I am not talking about keeping people back. I am talking about setting a bar and telling people they have a duty to reach it.