Cognitive Disconnect Quotes

A .. characteristic of progressive politicians is that they tend to be high-IQ stupid people. They are bright and well-educated but can’t comprehend the implications of policy.

You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.