A recent article by the inimitable
Victor Davis Hanson noted that we are in dire need of Renaissance men and women, people who are well-versed in many disciplines,
not limited to a narrow specialization. Hanson bemoaned a modern society that
is so compartmentalized by “professionals” and the “tyranny of credentialism”
that “a tiny credentialed and often incestuous elite manages the lives of a
vast underclass whose daily lives are scripted by top-down master planners—as
an autonomous and skeptical middle class disappears.”
Hanson cited Aristotle, Cicero, De
Vinci, Jefferson, Franklin, and Churchill-- among others-- as examples of
multi-faceted and multi-talented geniuses, Renaissance men, from the past…and
Elon Musk as perhaps the best example alive today.
This caused me to ask myself why it
appears that people of this ilk, with the desire and ability to master many
disciplines, are becoming fewer and farther between? Why are there almost no Renaissance
men anymore?
Sadly, I believe there are several
reasons for this. First and foremost, our schools. They no longer teach kids
how to think, but what to think. They have largely jettisoned the classics,
rhetoric, debate, history, economics, et. al., for “instruction” on gender
theory, DEI, and CRT. In short, too many of our school systems are far more interested
in indoctrinating our children than in educating them. This is—or should
be—criminal. It is a form of child abuse, with permanent deleterious
affects that reverberate through time.
Ironically, the advancement of
technology has also contributed to the dumbing down of society. Machine and artificial
intelligence is rising, human intelligence falling. There is a correlation. Too
many of us rely on calculators to do even the most basic math for us, and
Google to do our research and tell us what is real, right, and true. The rapid
advance of AI can only exacerbate this problem. We are writing ourselves out of our own story.
Benjamin Franklin was a journalist,
publisher, printer, author, politician, diplomat, inventor, scientist, and
philosopher.
What would a new Renaissance person
look like? Gender theory expert, master of DEI, CRT professor, Tik-Tokker,
video gamer, Pornhub aficionado, influencer, Instagram guru?
We have been lied to,
indoctrinated, hypnotized, anesthetized, and (figuratively) lobotomized…all to
the benefit of a clearly non-benevolent government. Coincidence?
Thomas Jefferson was a diplomat, the
third U.S. President, founder of the University of Virginia, an inventor,
agronomist, and architect… and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Independence is a key to being a multi-faceted
boon to society. The Thomas Jeffersons and Elon Musks of the world think
outside of the box, they don’t simply believe-- and do-- what those in power
want them to believe and do. They refuse to be indoctrinated and (figuratively)
lobotomized.
And it’s a far better world
because of them.
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