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America provides financial and practical access to more institutions of higher learning than any place in the world. 

As a bonus, Biden, Inc. has decided to do everything he can to transfer student loans of the academic crème de la crème to the backs of working people.  

In the face of such, how are we as a super-educated nation simultaneously becoming less knowledgeable, more emotionally driven and prone to irrationality?

Look to long-corrupted academia for a big part of the answer.

For decades, America’s colleges and universities have been an incubator for Marxist-socialist educators dedicated to plundering the free-enterprise system that employs them.

It’s easy to be a Marxist-socialist when you function in an environment characterized by tenure, conformity over merit, and ideology over reality.

Insulated educators are thus very much able to bite the hand that feeds them, and they do so by indoctrinating their pupils to liberalism.

These scholars, in turn, with the degrees, skills, tickets and passes that higher education affords, are then unleashed on America with an embedded call to change things.

In contradiction to a traditional liberal arts education priding itself on teaching people to think for themselves and search for truth, today’s liberally educated people are taught to regurgitate their propagandized learning with a presumption of truth.

Most of these people are gifted with higher intelligence and one would imagine that education blended into those good minds produces a student with uplifted capacities for greater things.

The graduates of our colleges and universities and their Marxist/socialist professors – by behavior, this is the preferred doctrine of the vast majority of our post-high school educators – certainly believe this to be the case.

And so, over the course of the years, highly programmed intelligentsia have entered our culture as managers, politicians, ministers, teachers and other influencers and passed their corrupted knowledge down to the less-blessed.

Adding to the carnage, these self-imagined scholars have been unleashed in their mission through technology, social media, the iPhone, and other means of broadened impact.

But there’s a problem.

Out of these genius minds has come some really dumb things, like defunding/emasculating our police; gender transitioning teenagers, unleashing our leaders to spend money that doesn’t exist; weaponizing our judiciary and other institutions of government; reverse racism; throwing open our borders; and getting lost in never-ending wars in foreign lands while neglecting to maintain our own.

This seemingly intentional failure in education illuminates two truisms — intelligence doesn’t make us smart and having intelligence doesn’t mean we’re bound to use it for good things. 

 Intelligence is the capacity to be smart, not a confirmation of smart. Real intelligence — the kind that can be put to real productive use — requires seasoning and discipline.

Without good training, doses of realism, measured humility, morality, and, above all, a dedication to truth, intelligence is predictably going to default to other cravings. 

Comfort and control top the list of the brain’s seductive vulnerabilities.

Therein lies the fatal flaw in today’s America – we cultivate intelligence, but fail miserably in teaching our encoded ones the crucial importance of a dedication to truth as an antidote to the mind’s darker affections.

One of the truly smartest people on the planet, British-Indian writer Gurwinder Bhogaln, has something to share that can help us save ourselves.

He, too, believes that a big problem with intelligence is that it can be applied to unintelligent things with the same enthusiasm one would use in pursuing a cure for cancer.

He calls these misbegotten intellectual dedications FIBs, or Fashionably Irrational Beliefs.

Welcome to today’s fibbing America — where a ton of people believe things that defy reason.

We are thus facing an unacknowledged tragedy requiring those who have a more grounded moral code and humbled intelligence to get their act together and fight back.

History tells us that bright-but-broken people throughout history have been willing to drive themselves and their train of followers right off a cliff.

We don’t have to ride the train down with them.

That means conservatives can’t be lazy; merely echoing the thinking of others; or discard the crucial need for a solid and true loving moral code to balance our smarts.

By adding a search for truth to all of our intellectual activities – the essence of a liberal arts education – we assure that fair heads vs. dead heads craft America’s future.