Other Possibilities

Mondragon: Spain's giant co-operative where times are hard but few go bust.  An interesting capitalist-cooperative hybrid model.  There are other possibilities.

Drones

Voters are drones.

Death of a Class

From a review of Death of a Yuppie Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Professional-Managerial Class:

Historically, members of the PMC have designed and managed capital’s systems of social control, oftentimes treating working-class people with a mixture of paternalism and hostility. As advocates for rational management of the workplace and society, however, the PMC has sometimes also acted as a buffer against the profit motive as the sole meaningful force in society. Today, members of the PMC face a choice. Will they cling to an elitist conception of their own superiority and attempt to defend their own increasingly tenuous privileges, or will they act in solidarity with other working people and help craft a politics capable of creating a better world for all?

Of course they will not.  They've been raised to believe societal myths and to embrace hyper-individuality.  Collective action is therefore inconceivable.  All that remains is complaining.  Talk - Action = Nothing.

Friends

In politics, supporters are often more of a detriment than enemies.

Not Very Bright

Bill Gates is naive, data is not objective.  Beyond marketing crappy software, he just is not very bright if he really believes in objective data collection.

Stupidity

Stupidity is contagious, but it can be cured by exposure to reality.

17 Equations

Link.

Talk

Those knowing nothing talk the most.

Psychopaths

Per Jobs fit for a psychopath?

1. Chief Executive Officer
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil servant

These professions have the lowest rate of psychopaths:

1. Care aide
2. Nurse
3. Therapist
4. Craftsperson
5. Beautician or stylist
6. Charity worker
7. Teacher
8. Creative artist
9. Doctor
10. Accountant

See Also.

It's Still Just Another Religion

Higgs boson theorist criticizes Richard Dawkins over anti-religious ‘fundamentalism’.  Atheism is still just another religion.

Don't Believe the Tripe

From Here's Proof That Most Pundits Don't Know What They're Talking About:

Tetlock interviewed 284 people who made their living "commenting or offering advice on political and economic trends." He asked them to assess the probabilities that certain events would occur in the not too distant future, both in areas of the world in which they specialized and in regions about which they had less knowledge ... Respondents were asked to rate the probabilities of three alternative outcomes in every case: the persistence of the status quo, more of something such as political freedom or economic growth, or less of that thing.

The results were devastating. The experts performed worse than they would have if they had simply assigned equal probabilities to each of the three potential outcomes. In other words, people who spend their time, and earn their living, studying a particular topic producer poorer predictions than dart-throwing monkeys who would have distributed their choices evenly over the options. Even in the region they knew best, experts were not significantly better than nonspecialists.

Don't believe the tripe.

Wage Slavery

Wage slavery is not something over which to be thankful.

Living

Living in a gated community is not a sign of freedom.

The Master Race

The master race is human garbage.

Useless Liberals

From Useless Liberal Intellectuals:

I have my set of words and you have yours. When we mean the same things, we can reason together to a conclusion. But suppose there are other people with other meanings for those words. They talk to each other and reach a different outcome. How can the two groups work together? They do not share a common language, and each distrusts the meanings assigned to the words of the other. Worse yet, the deconstruction crowd raises issues about the stability of words used to describe facts, so that even facts are subject to debate.

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Now suppose a group like Occupy wants to make decisions in this theoretical environment. If they fall prey to the academic process of the deconstructionist-poststructuralists, discussing every word, trying to strip out the repressive meanings, and searching for ways to examine every fact, nothing will happen but process. There is no way to make a decision. Even if they start with a good deal of agreement, the process is unwieldy and irritating. And when they get done, how can they use that result to impact the decisions of others? Do they have to repeat the process of masticating every word 50 times every time they add a new person, or attempt to persuade some random person? Thank the heavens they don’t. Confronted with a disaster, they act, as in Red Hook, New York, and Rockaway.

Deconstruction and poststructuralism have proved to be a disaster for participatory democracy. They are a disaster for the public sphere. This is the outcome of the life’s work of academic “liberals” trying to solve the problem of the hegemony of words.

Meanwhile the real hegemony, the hegemony of capitalists and oligarchs, dominates the world, wrecks the global economy, crushes the lives of hundreds of millions of people, and tramples democracy into the ground. Academic liberals wring their hands, but they have nothing to contribute to understanding or a method for change.

For the most part, I certainly agree with the author's assertion.  The author dies not go far enough in examining why such theories have been allowed to thrive.  Ultimately useless intellectuals are a by-product of an academic systems which promotes their stupidity as a means to ensure nothing ever changes.  Conservatives are often used as a bogey-man to explain counter-revolutionary impulses in society, but liberals are far more likely to stymie real change.  Liberals ensure that nobody does anything but sit around and talk.  Therefore nothing ever happens and nothing changes except through reaction (which is the home turf of conservative impulses).