The Self-Anointed Priest Class: Luxury Beliefs & Lack Of Self-Awareness Among Supposed Intellectuals

Thinking facts & material reality are beneath you does not indicate superior intelligence. It just makes you more gullible, closed-minded, censorious & resistant to challenges to your beliefs.

Lazy classism does keep on rearing its ugly head, doesn’t it? And I find myself irritated yet again today by a number of those self-appointed priest class “intellectuals” who don’t let a lack of facts, evidence or ethical integrity or the actual harm their unevidenced and often directly refuted theories do in the real world disrupt their self identification as both “progressive and “cleverer-than-thou”.

And despite all the evidence showing that, like many identitarians, they are neither of those things in reality, and saying or imagining you are a thing doesn’t mean that you actually are. Yep, that’s right. These are people who are neither particularly smart or progressive in their thinking or worldview, and from the evidence of what they’re prepared to tolerate in the name of their favoured ideologies, not bastions of ethics or integrity either. So no, I won’t be looking to you and your narrow-minded lack of curiosity about the world outside your bubble to tell me what “purity”, “intelligence” and “being a good and righteous person” is, thanks.

Assumption of Intellectual & Moral Superiority

Fresh ideas, creativity, explorations, looking at the world through different angles, questioning everything and challenging assumptions, all great features of intellectualism in a cultured, forward-thinking and diverse society.

But if or when your theory or belief or wish comes up against cold, hard, reality and not only isn’t backed up by the evidence, is being directly refuted by it, you actively choose to reject that evidence as “beneath you” and cling on to your theories come what may, that’s really not a superior intelligence holding out against intellectual pygmies who can’t look beyond their noses or who are clearly SO gullible and thick they believe whatever the “right wing press” (anything outside the Guardian, and even that can be suspiciously not pure enough at times, amirite?) tells them.

It’s quasi religious zealotry and not a little bit of preening ego. It’s a lack of intellectual curiosity. And it’s displaying a lack of fundamental intelligence and capacity for critical thought and dot-joining that any truly intelligent person would be ashamed and embarrassed by. So why are you doing it?

What You’re Actually Supporting

There’s literally nothing intellectually or morally superior about believing fantasy over reality, batshit theories that fly in the face of evidence, telling lies about people, joining in mob hate campaigns and being incapable of following through to impacts in the real world (that you clearly think is beneath you also). It’s what thick, braying, gullible, unintelligent people who can’t think for themselves or outside their limited, elitists bubbles do and have always done throughout history. It’s what elitists everywhere who don’t care about those they deem “the little people” do. In that, you are really no different from those rich Tories you undoubtedly claim that everything about you fundamentally opposes.

Your problem is that your assumption of your own intellectual and moral superiority has led you not to be able to accept any questioning at all, and certainly very little self-reflection. You ensure that everyone around you provides you with a self-affirming bubble, where your beliefs are bolstered and never questioned, and you take it upon yourself to oust and shame anybody who dares to question your often very shaky intellectual assumptions. Increasingly, we find that when you are questioned by someone with access to the actual facts or data, your “intellectual superiority” collapses. Which is why you “no debate'“ them isn’t it? But by refusing to discuss or encounter anyone who disagrees, you’re the authors of the downfall in the intellectual quality of your own arguments.

Meanwhile, you’re the ones tying yourself into knots trying to excuse your support for the mobbing, propagandist and misogynist hate campaigns against certain female authors who understand (through lived experience) and have done far more for traumatised women than you have EVER done in your life, and which involve multiple death and rape threats and telling outright lies about their motivations. I’m still not seeing how you justify your hatred or the vile threats and bigotry you’re enabling, or your defamations of people who have far more understanding and compassion than you do. All I’m seeing is your privilege and how sheltered you are from things that impact others, frankly. Ever heard the term “check your privilege?” Well, instead of directing it at other people while you consider yourself naturally above any questioning due to your supposed moral purity, I suggest you learn to do the same.

You’re the ones handwaving away the experiences of multiple victims of DV and what most experts actually know about what coercive control is and how it works, and you’re embarrassingly oblivious to that and your own ignorance about it. And you’re happy to demonise as “thick” and “easily led” anyone whose reading might extend outside your own very limited and increasingly propagandist small puritan Guardianista bubble, while failing to face up to your own obvious limitations in terms of the information you allow to pass before your eyes.

You’re the ones gaslighting yourselves to try to find intellectual justification for your support of regressive baby pink n blue sex stereotypes that went out in the 1950s and somehow imagining this is progressive and a superior form of intellectualism. You’re the ones demonising women who stand up for women in prison, and sneering at women who dare to talk about the realities of sexual assault and harassment, not to mention ignoring the very fundamentals underpinning women’s legal rights, and cheering on regressive, violent misogyny as if it’s “political activism”. You’re also big fans of censorship and oppressive authoritarianism, aren’t you? Of course, you are so perfect and pure, you honestly believe you’ll always get to be one of the enforcers rather than the censored, don’t you, and that you get to set the terms? What a pity that most of human history tells us that you’re almost certainly going to be proved wrong about that.

Spouting Scientific Woo—No, Sex Isn’t A Spectrum

You’re the ones spouting utterly pseudoscientific claptrap about DSDs proving “sex is a spectrum” and therefore trans and non binary being scientifically proven, despite the absence of ANY correlation whatsoever between DSDs and the regressively sexist “gendered” personality spectrums that you (usually arts and humanities graduates who look down on mere scientists as the uneducated peasantry) seem to think are now “science”. While accusing those who disagree with you on scientific grounds (and an understanding of scientific analysis and method) of being “thick”, while you bang on about clownfish and the like like a fucking idiot, ignore all the alarm bells and mountains of evidence (presumably on the ground that they’re coming from ‘the wrong sort of expert’, like clinicians, paediatricians and safeguarding leads) and seem incapable of basic critical thinking, intelligent analysis and dot-joining, or questioning of your own massively flawed assumptions. You also appear to be ignorant of history, of the dangers of logical leaps and logical fallacies in arguments, and appear to lack any awareness at all that there could be other more evidence-based belief frameworks that support gender nonconformity without believing in a load of fact-free religious guff about ‘born in the wrong body” and sending kids down unevidenced, irreversible, medical pathways which render them sterile.

Self Identifying “Working Class” Heroes

You’re the people who so often self identify as “working class” despite overwhelmingly middle class roots, social circles and interests. You do know that “diversity” isn’t just “people with different haircuts from you”, right? You operate in a fantasy world that creates a simulacrum of what you imagine is “working class reality” (I dunno, did you go to a comprehensive school or work in a chip shop once and you think means you’re somehow a genuine working class voice?) and make pronouncements often, but rarely stoop to listen to the actual voices of those who are actually living the “identity” you’re claiming for yourselves. You might find your fantasies are a little out of date. You treat actual working class people as the uneducated peasantry who shouldn’t even be given the vote , much less listened to, and assume working class people who disagree with you are only doing so because they clearly aren’t as clever as you and don’t have your superior knowledge or intellectual capability, and need you, the Lord & Lady Bountiful types, to bring the loaves and fishes and “educate” them. By which you mean indoctrinate them into your current religious beliefs.

Beliefs that don’t stand up to scrutiny or evidence, and which they’re not permitted to question, ever. What on EARTH makes you think there’s anything remotely “clever” or “superior” about that?