{"id":1931116,"date":"2023-05-15T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-powerful-intellectual-class-finds-joy-in-making-us-obey-and-be-compliant-warns-scholar\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:14:11","slug":"americas-powerful-intellectual-class-finds-joy-in-making-us-obey-and-be-compliant-warns-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-powerful-intellectual-class-finds-joy-in-making-us-obey-and-be-compliant-warns-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholar warns: America&#8217;s intellectual elite enjoys making us obey and comply."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famericas-powerful-intellectual-class-finds-joy-in-making-us-obey-and-be-compliant-warns-scholar%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931116&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>America\u2019s Intellectual Class Misusing Power to Threaten Freedom of Speech, Says Scholar<\/h2>\n<p>Scholar and author Tom Harrington has warned that America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-jen-rubin-now-admits-covid-19-is-not-deadly-or-even-severe-for-most-responsible-americans\/\" title=\"Even Jen Rubin Now Admits COVID-19 Is \u2018Not Deadly Or Even Severe\u2019 For Most Responsible Americans\">intellectual class<\/a> has been given too much power by the public, and their misuse of such power is threatening the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-argue-senate-impeachment-trial-unconstitutional\/\" title=\"Trump Attorneys Argue Senate Impeachment Trial Unconstitutional\">fundamental freedom<\/a> of speech in the country. In a recent interview with Jan Jekielek on \u201cAmerican Thought Leaders,\u201d Harrington said, \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely remarkable how easily we\u2019ve gone from free speech to asking, \u2018How can I make my way around the censorship that\u2019s here?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Power of Experts<\/h3>\n<p>Harrington pointed out that people are delivering a lot of their power into the hands of \u201cexperts\u201d who tend to have a \u201cflipness\u201d with which they have used such power. \u201cWorse than flipness, there seems to be almost a perversion and a joy in making us obey and be compliant for compliance\u2019s sake. This is very troubling in a society,\u201d he said. Harrington warned that censorship and cancellation are \u201ctwo cudgels\u201d used against the public.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experts must be able to keep their ego impulses in check and ensure that they are using their power to help the people.<\/li>\n<li>True experts do not impose their reality on anyone.<\/li>\n<li>Power is a gift in a democratic society.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Premise of Democracy<\/h3>\n<p>The premise of democracy, as it formed in America in the 18th century, was that lawyers, workers, and farmers were all citizens of equal measure. Even though there may be a pecking order, no one was \u201cinherently better\u201d or in a place to tell someone else how they should live their lives. \u201cNow, there seems to be among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/year-20\/\" title=\"Year 20\">credentialed class<\/a> an attitude that says, \u2018Yes. I\u2019ll be polite to people. I\u2019ll be polite in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-powerful-intellectual-class-finds-joy-in-making-us-obey-and-be-compliant-warns-scholar\/\" title=\"Scholar warns: America's intellectual elite enjoys making us obey and comply.\">basic social sense<\/a>. But in my heart, I know that poor person really doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s good for them. After all, I have nice degrees. I went to the right schools. I\u2019ve really thought a lot more about things than other people,\u2019\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n<h3>Pushing Censorship<\/h3>\n<p>In the interview, Harrington also pointed out that censorship and cancellation are \u201ctwo cudgels\u201d used against the public. \u201cWe\u2019re beginning to see that a lot of this hooting down is not as spontaneous as many of us would like to believe. With the recent \u2018Twitter Files,\u2019 and the case that the attorney generals of Missouri and Louisiana are trying now, we\u2019re finding out that this was anything but spontaneous. There were a number of government actors working in concert with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-dan-bongino-on-the-future-of-parler-and-governments-role-in-tech\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Dan Bongino on the Future of Parler and Government\u2019s Role in Tech\">private actors<\/a> to achieve a censorship that, frankly, for those of us of a certain age, is unimaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is important to remember that power is a gift in a democratic society, and experts must use their power to help the people, not impose their reality on them. The premise of democracy is that all citizens are equal, and no one is inherently better or in a place to tell someone else how they should live their lives. Censorship and cancellation are dangerous tools that should not be used against the public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s intellectual class has been given so much power by the public that their misuse of such power is threatening the fundamental freedom of speech in the country, says\u00a0scholar and author Tom Harrington. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely remarkable how easily we\u2019ve gone from free speech to asking, \u2018How can I make my way around the censorship that\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1987,"featured_media":1931117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7378,12322,4069,22837,21042,26795,11641,3633],"class_list":["post-1931116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-americas","tag-comply","tag-elite","tag-enjoys","tag-intellectual","tag-obey","tag-scholar","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}