(Thoughts on Intellectual Decline) The postwar academy was bad enough. We lost t

(Thoughts on Intellectual Decline)
The postwar academy was bad enough. We lost the ability to conduct social science rather early – during the world wars. We lost the ability to think scientifically by the capture of the academy by the jewish left. And we lost the ability to speak the truth with the capture of the academy by women. As a consequence we are losing the capacity to think and reason as well as speak the truth before face.

I’m listening to a late eighties interview of an influential scholar at Cambridge. And I’ve listened to and read Bertrand Russell for example. And while Russell is quite silly in many ways, he is a solid thinker. Of course I consider myself a product of Darwin, Hayek, Popper, Becker, and Turing. Though we should give credit to Aquinas, Bacon and Occam in their generation and Smith-Hume-Blackstone in theirs, as much as Darwin, Spencer, Nietzche, Maxwell in theirs. But otherwise, outside of genetics, medicine, and tech, we have seen nearly all thought in the behavioral sciences (other than some aspects of economics), result in error, bias, and fraud.

So, it’s become increasingly clear that (a) classical liberalism = being english, and (b) scientific thought = being english. The degree to which these genetics culture institutions and systems of thought are related is not something we were terribly happy in the postwar period to imagine. Even if it was considered obvious pre-war.