{"id":736,"date":"2012-10-21T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=736"},"modified":"2012-10-21T18:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T02:23:11","slug":"elitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Elitism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent \u201cHi &amp; Lois\u201d comic strip struck home! Could it be that there are many people with less intelligence, vocabulary, and correspondingly more entitlement to their own prejudices who are inclined to condemn offhandedly anyone with more critical thinking as \u201celitist?\u201d For example, consider this exchange: <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elitism2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"elitism2\" border=\"0\" alt=\"elitism2\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elitism2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and his office mate replies:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elitism1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"elitism1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"elitism1\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/elitism1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2026 so, is the guy on the right being elitist? Maybe so, if it\u2019s right for those with a limited vocabulary to feel entitled to have everything&#8212;including the discourse of their neighbors&#8212;\u201cdumbed down\u201d to fit their minds. More, I discern a shameless willingness to blame as a moral fault any evidence of intelligence beyond the median range&#8212;which is really junior high school in vocabulary and thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Excepting the clever objection implied above, could it be that many mass media journalists don\u2019t even notice that they, seeking copy at any cost,&#160; are enabling the lowering of the level of discernment by themselves indulging in disguised conversations about image rather than substance? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent \u201cHi &amp; Lois\u201d comic strip struck home! Could it be that there are many people with less intelligence, vocabulary, and correspondingly more entitlement to their own prejudices who are inclined to condemn offhandedly anyone with more critical thinking as \u201celitist?\u201d For example, consider this exchange: \u2026 and his office mate replies: \u2026 so, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}