Speaking Foolishness to Reasonableness elites

John Bambenek, the Part-Time Pundit, insists of Foolishly exposing the naked emperor in the Ivory Tower.

Observe:

The problem I've noticed with discrimination is that people really don't have a problem with it. What people have a problem with is being on the butt-end of discrimination. As long as "their people" are the beneficiaries, they never seem to mind. This attitude was displayed in several letters and columns that attacked my previous column on discrimination against conservatives. No one really denied that it took place; they said it just doesn't matter. Conservatives supposedly control the country, so liberals have a right to engage in hate.

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When I wrote last week on the state of public education, I found that my critics proved my point more eloquently and directly than I had. The argument goes something like this: if parents were allowed to choose which school their children went to, it would destroy the public education system. No one challenged the assertion that public education has failed. They state implicitly that public schools are inferior and fail to educate, and they can't compete with private schools that do. If the purpose of public education is to educate children and the system fails to do that, what point is there in maintaining that system? The answer is that the system isn't about education. It's about power.

Guaranteed not to win him friends and influence people at the University of Illinois. Good for him! He witnesses to the truth that it's better to be an insulted Fool than a flattered Reasonable.

At the end of the day, all Reasonable elites have is a bankrupt philosophy founded on a fallicious determinism they confuse for human nature. The exercise of power, motivated by the need to decide good and evil for themselves, becomes their raison d'etre. No wonder so many of them have soaked the carpets of civility with their mouth-foaming! They're denied the one thing that defines their existence.

Meanwhile, Mr. Bambenek enjoys the last laugh. He speaks Foolishness to Reasonableness and lives to laugh about it.