#SmartPeople #doctors #scientists #teachers #discrimination #ControllingForces
There seems to be a strategy by some in politics to try to control smart people.
Doctors, scientists, teachers and others who have professional credentials are seeing their work ridiculed, criticized or otherwise restricted.
It’s tough to do what they do in this environment.
But, that may be the point. And, it’s not unprecedented in history.
Groups who have faced discrimination have faced it because those in power are envious of what they have, and their abilities. Or, they have faced it because of the labor they can provide.
The world flourishes when smart people with good intentions are given free rein to do their jobs.
It’s tough to innovate when restrictions are improperly imposed upon those with the greatest minds.
Teachers can’t teach well if they are told that only certain books can be used, or only certain subjects can be addressed.,
Doctors can’t practice medicine properly when they are restricted on what medical procedures they can use to treat patients.
Scientists can’t advance science when others ridicule or condemn scientific progress.
Usually, those doing the restricting are not qualified to do so. They merely believe they have the power to do so.
Often, it feels like an assault on intelligence. Yet, there is a method to the madness.
By restricting how intelligence is used, it enhances the control of those doing the restricting.
This type of control in history has led to slavery, the holocaust and other forms of humanitarian destruction.
Those who have not achieved what the most intelligent have achieved revel in this power grab. They are jealous of others’ intelligence and knowledge.
They feel that if you can’t be as smart, be more powerful.
Fortunately, the intelligent folks under assault have ways to fight back. They can remove those restrictors from power.
They, and their supporters, at least in the United States, can vote out those who would restrict the best and the brightest.
We in the U.S. value innovation. We value the fact that we can make progress. We recognize problems that can be solved by unleashing the talent we have in this country.
Yet, some who wish to control the intelligent refuse to recognize the problems that can be solved through innovation.
They feel their lives will be upended by progress. They want to go back to the way things were before innovation.
We have to remember, particularly as Americans, that things like innovation and demographics are like flowing water. We can try to divert them, if they don’t suit us, but we can’t stop them.
In the case of the best and the brightest, let’s try a little less diversion and a little more unleashing.
Peter