Why does it seem like the large majority of intellectuals and philosophers are left-wing...

Why does it seem like the large majority of intellectuals and philosophers are left-wing? Do educated and intelligent minds naturally trend toward socialism and collectivism?

>all these thinly veiled /pol/ threads

Can you fuck off, already?

well there are all kinds of arguments about this but i think it just comes down to the fact that it seems kind of bad taste to pick on failed groups so academics scapegoat white males for everything since they are the only ones strong enough to take it

Stop replying to yourself

Yes. Refined and well educated people naturally have more enlightened views.

It's not that they're necessarily left wing (many are liberal), but that they tend to be anti-capitalist. This goes for leftists and conservatives alike because capitalism undermines tradition and businessmen have throughout the ages been at odds with intellectuals.

It's because greed and altruism are polar opposites, actually.
Also because anyone with half a brain can see that it is in the best interest of any community for every member of that community to be healthy, happy, and well provided for.

they don't like capitalists because they are masters of maneuvering in large bureaucratic pseudo-governmental organizations so to them the idea of a giant government bureaucracy run by intellectuals controlling all aspects of everyone's lives seems like a great idea, i don't fault them, if i felt like a fish in water in a big bureaucracy and had tenure at some giant institution and could be a little dictator over students, I would think communism is a great idea too, but since my social skills are shit, and i have no choice but to work for myself, i think abolishing the free market is very terrible indeed

try the redpill, idiot

Try properly managing an empire, numbskull.

>t. fucking idiot who hates masculinity and whiteness

>Truth has a liberal bias
I was lied to once with this.
Truth is it has a leftist bias.
Conservatism, nationalism, etc. all yearn for the past, like they can bottle the stuff. It's not realistic.

Holy crap, high heel sneakers are such a crap idea

>has no argument
>try the redpill
wow

t. brainwashed fool

I'm not sure why you worded your post this way. Your statement doesn't conflict with mine, and in fact I'd agree with you.

Forgot my >

actually reality has a right-wing bias, in the sense that the natural state of things has no "social justice" it is only through thousands of years of striving that we arrive at this place where "conservatives" long for the past, but really nothing has changed, the elites of the civilization have all of the power and resources and everyone else to varying degrees works to produce wealth for them, to do we do have more freedom than in the past but only because of technology advancing not because humanity is finally coming into its true "leftwing" reality of some shit

>falling for the bait
literal redditors here

stop this shit, this is fucking Veeky Forums
very few of us are philosophers and there are probably three "intellectuals" on the entirety of Veeky Forums
saged, reported to the fbi and all that

Why, hypothetically, should I like masculinity and whiteness?

Because I think it's more related to the greed and altruism than the tradition thing, in reference specifically to capitalism.
When it comes to conservative vs liberal, I'd agree that tradition is a huge factor.

Dostoyevsky and Mishima were pretty right-wing fampai

yes, because only professional academicians who teach intro to english lit year after year in an endless loop are allowed to have opinions on things

>waa, they called me out
>I'll call them reddit, that'll show 'em

I'm not the guy you replied to, but it's obviously bait. Did you not notice that "try the redpill" is spammed in every other thread?

Seems like some of us are having a conversation... And this is a random sample at one particular time of day.

Why, in fact I did not.
Thank you for pointing that out, my good sir.

What are some good conservative philosophers and intellectuals? Religious but not crazy.

Russell Kirk. Read The Conservative Mind.

Stop wasting your time bullshitting around and start with the Greeks newfriend.

>the natural state of things has no "social justice"
Leftwing

The rest of what you say is just happenstantial historical facts. The liberals, the industrial revolution. Do you like it or hate it?

Because academia has ALWAYS been left-wing (except when controlled by orthodox religious establishments or outright censored). In classical ideals the socio-political pressures were to be abolished from academia to support free thought and expression, while in more modern times since about the turn of the 20th century academia has been a prime target of social engineering due to the age and relative moral instability of students.
This is a pretty well known phenomenon in the West, you have to be living under a pretty fucking dense rock not to see this.

I think it personally varies by culture. America is big on liberal and enlightenment ideals, and thus, intellectuals here will interpret such liberal and "left wing ideals" as they will. Russia, especially back in the day, had very well-known conservative and reactionary intellectuals (Dostoy, for example). The point is any academic bias is self-perpetuating and that academic bias is merely rooted in the values a nation seems to carry. These are just more 'left wing' times, if you will.

>>>/reddit/

>mishima
>the man so engrossed by outdated ideology he gave a silly speech then killed himself
>intellectual

yeah fuckin right

Hiveminded.

because going to church, loving your country and being a good family member all became taboo and the left is in a constant scramble now to say that this was a good thing. it's easier in a mob because when you say it alone you look very foolish

Western European culture rules. it always ruled and that is why it conquered the earth. it still rules today as technology.

it is never too late to take the red pill. realize that deconstruction is dead and capitalism is forever

>20th century academia has been a prime target of social engineering

>Why does it seem like the large majority of intellectuals and philosophers are left-wing?


For one it is a big talking point in conservative groups, that's where I heard this point. I don't really care about it so I never looked into it. I never asked any of my professors what their politics were so I couldn't tell you from first hand experience.

>Do educated and intelligent minds naturally trend toward socialism and collectivism?

Not really sure. I can tell you intellectuals during the Vietnam war were all for it and didn't question it until the very end. That doesn't sound like a group who is for socialism and collectivism.

>I can tell you intellectuals during the Vietnam war were all for it and didn't question it until the very end.

some did and they had their careers ruined look up the "Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars" and when everyone realize they were right and the pro-war people were retards it gave the left a boost in academia, but also the GI bill after WW2 gave a lot of working class people changes to go to college so there was this influx of proletarian background ppl into academia, so between those two waves, the right pushed back into the defensive

>a group of graduate students and younger faculty

We are talking very few students and faculty here.

>so between those two waves

What two waves? You only listed the GI bill

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say

GI Bill and the fallout from Vietnam was the one-two punch that broke any "conservative" hold on academia

well also the influx of marxist jews from europe after ww2 had an affect as well

Yes.

go back to /x/ with this political

Because left-leaning people are smarter.

because philosophy creates inhuman amounts of empathy and respect for others

>implying this isn't a fucking fact
The Soviet Union outlined their plans to cause a moral collapse in America by undermining traditional conservative political ideals first in academia and then through memetic contact to the rest of the burgeoning population, down to projections of how many years it would take to destabilize each generation.
This has been confirmed since at least the mid 1980s when we had ex-Soviets on national television telling us this, if not well beforehand.

>philosophy creates inhuman amounts of empathy and respect

is this really philosophy's fault? most philosophers turn out to be misanthropists or extremely alienated. but maybe that's your point tho

not saying you're wrong. excess sympathy & respect is death, esp combined with self-hatred. just don't know which philosophers you mean. not the greeks im assuming. or nietzsche. I guess more postmodern types?

for me I think there's a necessarily tribalism aspect of life without which we can't function. introspection destroys that by taking apart the ego needed to survive. but I guess that's what you're saying and in that case I agree

what's the solution then? redpill? not memeing you

Do you have any evidence, or is this just a meme?

that claim has become unverifiable precisely because that's how the left wants it. in the meantime philosophy is basically invented by a hyper-conservative intellectual elite: heraclitus, plato, hobbes, nietzsche, heidegger, confucius, laozi...

who's not in that category? marx, foucault, derrida...who else? deleuze? zizek? gramsci?

if you got a choice of those two rooms, which would you want to go into? it's not even a choice. sign me up for the logos-worshiping cosmonauts over the poststructuralists any day of the week

>hyper-conservative intellectual elite
>Rofl

>if you got a choice of those two rooms, which would you want to go into?
The one with Epicurus, Nietzsche, Marx, Stirner, but w/e, memer.

When everything I want to say is being posted by someone else with better writing and argumentative skills. Except for you, butterfly, you hold a special place in my heart. Right between the dumpster fire of bad grammar and the holiness of my pure ideology.

Conservative politics are self contradictory and dumb. Left wing views are the natural result of critical thought.

If you are a reasonably intelligent person with a functioning moral and political conscience, it should be easy to understand why reactionary ideology is founded on faulty principles.

No.

Correct.