Behind the mask!

So true...LOL, Michael Durkin nails it again:

Now consider the intellectual.  He has graduated, proudly, with a degree in French literature, or a PhD in the breeding habits of butterflies.  He regards himself as socially superior to a plumber but, to his horror, when he tries to enter the labour market, he discovers there is little or no demand for experts in Baudelaire, or for lepidopterists.  Perhaps he tries to obtain a poorly paid position at a university, to continue his ‘work’.  Even if he lands such as position he struggles to maintain a middle class lifestyle on the paltry wages.   Does he retrain as a plumber (since demand for plumbers is high)?   God forbid.  The very thought! 

Ludwig von Mises says of the intellectual, ‘As a “worker by brain” he looks arrogantly down upon the manual worker whose hands are calloused and soiled.  It makes him furious to notice that so many of these manual workers get higher pay and are more respected than he himself.  What a shame he thinks, that capitalism fondles the simple drudgery of the “uneducated” and does not appraise his “intellectual” work according to its “true” value.

This mentality is what is behind the 'new class':

The intellectuals believe there is a nobility in public service which is not to be found in the vulgar market place.  Happily for them, with the expansion of the State in the 20^th Century the number of these State-funded jobs has swollen enormously.  J.K Galbraith (among others) called this burgeoning State-sponsored intelligentsia the ‘New Class’.

These are the bureaucrats, the feeders at the public trough, the parasites who hate 'capitalism' because they can't compete in the market:

The poorly paid intellectual, says Mises, ‘must swallow down his mortification and divert his wrath toward a vicarious target.  He indicts society’s economic organisation, the nefarious system of capitalism.  But for this unfair regime his abilities and talents, his zeal and his achievements would have brought him the rich reward they deserve.’    Of the intelligentsia, he says, ‘They sublimate their hatred into philosophy, the philosophy of anti-capitalism, in order to render inaudible the inner voice that tells them their failure is entirely their own fault.’   Schumpeter too describes the ‘hostility of the intellectual group – amounting to moral disapproval of the capitalist order.’ 

...these are the ones who want us to give them our taxes and they want to rule because they know best, they are the 'intellectuals', they are the ones who care!

As Vaclav Klaus so presciently says the Global warming scare is not about greening the planet its really about who wants to be in charge.

The market is based on merit.  Success is determined by how highly people value what you have to sell.  The intellectuals, whose talents are not highly valued, yearn for a society based on status.  This is why the Green intelligentsia fetishise hierarchical pre-capitalist society.  This kind of society, they assert, was more ‘natural’ and ‘ordered’ and ‘harmonious’.

Today, the bulk of intellectuals in the ‘New Class’ work directly or indirectly for the State.  They are paid out of taxes levied on the productive economy.  In other words, the plumbers (and bricklayers and lorry drivers and estate agents) are forced to pay for them.  No wonder the plumbers do not turn up at Green demonstrations to demand higher taxes and more state control.