Why Do Media Focus On Mouthings Of Meaningless People?
How many of these names mean anything to any of you?
Vassilis Alexakis, Svetlana Alexievitch, Anne Applebaum, Jens Christian Grøndahl, David Grossman, Agnès Heller, Elfriede Jelinek, Ismaïl Kadaré, György Konrád, Milan Kundera, Bernard-Henri Lévy, António Lobo Antunes, Claudio Magris, Ian McEwan, Herta Müller, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Orhan Pamuk, Rob Riemen, Salman Rushdie, Fernando Savater, Roberto Saviano, Eugenio Scalfari, Simon Schama, Peter Schneider, Abdulah Sidran, Leïla Slimani, Colm Tóibín, Mario Vargas Llosa, Adam Michnik and Adam Zagajewski.
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Have you read any books, articles, or even ‘letters-to-the-editor’ penned by any of them? Have you even read anything written ABOUT them?
(Actually, in the case of two of them, if you read my blog regularly, you have – see my PS when you get to the bottom of this page!).
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I need hardly continue, but one more question – do you sit down to bacon and eggs on a Sunday morning and say to the person across the table –
‘Hey, didya see what ‘X’ (insert any of the above) had to say about ( insert anything at all) ???’
Unlikely – because you are a normal person.
Okay, most of you probably have heard of Rushdie, but only because he was sentenced to death in absentia by an ignorant old savage in Tehran. Shameful, yes, but even so, I have never read Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ – have you?
Much of what ‘intellectuals’ write is unreadable.
They tend to write for each other.
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In other words, these waste-of-space ‘intellectuals,’ to whose collective bleat – ‘Europe Is Coming Apart’ – the Guardian gives such prominence, are completely irrelevant to real people who get up every morning and go forth to do honest work.
Suppose I rounded up a similar number of real, useful people, street-cleaners, shop assistants, barmaids, bank clerks, builders’ labourers, firemen, secretaries, who share my views on “Europe” or anything else and had them sign a declaration to that effect?
Would the Guardian even bother to read it, never mind give it huge coverage?
Not a chance, and why?
Because they are real, useful members of the community, who do real jobs, lead normal lives and are thus of infinitely greater value to their country than any of the ‘cerebral celebs’ whose pearls of ‘wisdom’ the Guardian would have us slurp like sheep.
It’s not just the Guardian, true.
Even RT had an incomprehensible report on somebody called Thom Yorke, whose appearance is as unkempt as his latest infantile and ignorant outburst…
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Brexit is like ‘early days of third reich,’ Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke says
https://www.rt.com/uk/450978-yorke-brexit-may-reich/—
https://www.rt.com/uk/450978-yorke-brexit-may-reich/—
Oscar is discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Oscar 19:32 on February 11, 2019 Permalink |
If you run through all those names listed in the Guardian, a lot of them come from East / Central Europe. If these left liberal brainiacs got out of the bubble more and listened to the real people in those countries, there would be very little meeting of minds. Poles and Czechs, Slovaks and the rest, they tend to have views like yours and mine.
‘intellectuals’ are a cosmopolitan, de-nationalised, rootless lot, with a few honourable exceptions. The two you have written about, that Italian and the Scot, are examples of how lost they are to all the normal bonds that bind peoples together as nations. A worthless bunch as you say, egg-heads writing stuff for other egg-heads to praise.
It’s a bit like that Hollywood crowd, their glitterati ceremonies where they decide whose movies are the greatest, and sometimes they even get it right when the box-office takings match up with the favourites chosen by the few hundred ego-trippers at the ‘film-festivals.’
Sometimes.
That’s more, really, than the ‘intellectuals’ can say. Their book sales only get into even marginally significant numbers because they are named as ‘set texts’ that poor students are told to buy by leftwing lecturers.
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