Intellectuals have all too often promoted these envy and resentment ideologies. There are both psychic and material rewards for the intelligentsia in doing so, even when the supposed beneficiaries of these ideologies end up worse off. When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
That’s from Professor and author Thomas Sowell writing about the selective focusing by mainstream intellectuals in dealing with disparities, where their major thrust has been to promote the politics of class warfare.
[Gosh, this resonates much to the Philippine setting]
No comments:
Post a Comment