Monday, July 11, 2011
Most Stupid People are Conservative
I have encountered a greater number of cordial and open-minded people on the left than I have on the right. There is that famous anecdote about John Stuart Mills who corrected himself saying "What I MEANT was that not all conservatives are stupid but most stupid people are conservative." Polymaths tend to be more open-minded and curious, willing to try new things whereas conservatives are by nature less curious and want to maintain some status quo. --- During the civil rights era, Wm. F. Buckley Jr. pointed out, tongue in cheek, that blacks ADMIT they are backward since they have formed The National Association for the *ADVANCEMENT* of Colored People - an argument which Buckley later abandoned and which I find disingenuous and reprehensible.
