badgenome on 24 August 2013
| mai said: I've actually read it ;) |
Well then, you should know how neocons thought at the time. Nowadays you can find Fukuyama running like hell from his own ideas.
The elite are as prone to parochialism as anyone. And the naturally intelligent are probably more prone to believing foolish things than the less intelligent. The dullard tends to believe only in what he sees, while the intelligent often get carried away by their own fantastic imaginations. It doesn't help matters that if you grow up being told all the time how bright and smart you are, you can easily become convinced of your own intellectual superiority and are thus rendered unteachable.
