God, this is brilliant!
In order to maintain their power and position within society, articulate intellectuals must convince the larger population that they really do have a superior understanding of the issues they study. The do so using a parliament of clocks. By enforcing rigorous conformist standards on their members, they seek to create the illusion of accuracy by making it appear that all people knowledgeable in a particular field all reach the same conclusion. If all the supposed experts in a particular field all tell the same story the lay people are much less likely to guess that none of the experts know what they are talking about.
You can see this effect quite clearly in the herd mentality of journalists.......
Contemporary Leftism is the politics of the articulate intellectual and it is clear that Leftists care more about creating the appearance of their own infallibility than in telling the time.
Read the whole essay!. ;-D
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