Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: telnetvision video to
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Tue Nov 10, 2026 08:37

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-=> Dumas Walker wrote to Boraxman <=-

 DW> @MSGID: <6AEF5913.139785.dove-gen@vert.synchro.net>
 B> Intellectuals do indeed seem to be somewhat ignorant of the
 B> mechanics of the world.  The view the world as one being subject
 B> to ideas, rather than laws of nature.  This is why people who
 B> are engineers tend to be well grounded, they actually udnerstand
 B> how systems work.

 DW> Agreed.

 B> There is another reason why intellectuals love Marxism.  Marxism
 B> is a system which speficially puts THEM in charge.
 B> Intellectuals will advocate a system where they, not the "common
 B> man" or "worker" or "engineer" or "scientist" rule.

 DW> Also agreed, although I think they are sometimes mistaken here and find
 DW> out the hard way that they won't really be in charge.  They may even be
 DW> seen as a threat to the very -ism they were advocating.  That happened
 DW> in the USSR, and also in Iran during the uprising in the late 1970s.
 DW> Their voices were quickly silenced.

 B> So yeah, of course they would hate Capitalism.  Capitalism has
 B> no need nor use for them.  Marxism/Communism puts them in
 B> charge.

 DW> I would amend this to say that Capitalism has no need for
 DW> pseudo-intellectuals.  I think they could use "real" intellectuals,
 DW> with actual experience and expertise, but sometimes ignore them to
 DW> their own detriment (see W. Edwards Deming).

W. Edwards Deming is a bit of an influence on my, due to my profession.

Capitalism has no need for these pseudo-intellectuals because no one finds use
or preference for their ideas.  How many people willingly will spend money for
someone to come up with some rubbish "critical race theory" or something like
that?

Thats why they need government support, and different lobby groups/NGO's and
other shadow organisations to funnel money to them.  They take money from
producers and we end up paying for their dribble.

Their funding just needs to be cut.

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