Quote of the day

Boy, there's a whole lot of smart bottled up in this:

Smart, inexperienced people inevitably believe that they know more than the rest of us, and that they should be acknowledged as our leaders because of their Ivy League-demonstrable intellectual superiority. These smart yet inexperienced people, whom I’ll refer to as ‘fools’ to reflect their ignorance of how the world works due to their stubborn belief that intelligence equals wisdom, further believe that any objection to their leadership or their ideas is due to ignorance and fear on the part of the less-enlightened. Further, the ‘fools’ believe that there are smart, evil people who exploit the fear and ignorance of the less-enlightened to thwart the ‘fools’ as they seek to raise us all out of the muck of present-day society and culture. And finally, ‘fools’ believe that their intellectual superiority by itself can overcome any type of resistance or hostility including hostile resistance from less-enlightened nation-states, because intellectual superiority always trumps physical or military superiority.

From a comment to a post over at Volokh about a more-or-less impenetrable intellectual paper on the new class warfare. The comments by themselves at Volokh will give you more IQ points than the paper, or maybe an Ivy League education.

The (unjustified) intellectual self-regard of the educated class is an infinitely renewable source of hilarity.

Added: This is simply superb, in a (very) pointy-headed way.