US Scholar Tom Harrington has called out the completely unjustified power that the New Class of intellectuals, experts and idea workers, and technocrats have in modernity. Their power comes in part from the power of words and ideas for social control, and this has been a particularly strong influence over whites, especially Nordics (Northern Europeans), as I see it, as they seem to be genetically programmed to seek justifications for beliefs, and supplying bs “justifications” is exactly what the sophists of the New Class exceed in, for talk is cheap. This is well demonstrated by the conceptual swill flowing from the modern universities, such as Critical Race Theory. But, it is all contrary to the fundamental core of the Enlightenment, where critical reason should lead to humility, not a culture of control by knowledge: “The existence of misinformation presumes the existence of pure information that is unambiguously understood. No information is ever unambiguously understood, simply because of the incapacity of people to see it in exactly the same way. We’re all different. The idea of misinformation depends on a very primitive idea of information.”
“All inquiry is torturous. All inquiry takes a path … What may seem self-evident at one stage of the process of inquiry might turn out to be completely false later on. And yet, you have someone intervening and saying, ‘No, that’s definitely nonsense.’”