Why The Trucker is Smarter

By Francis Christian
Poet, surgeon, scientist



Science may be called upon to serve common sense - but can never overrule it.

Since common sense has the truth immeasurably more on its side than any purely academic endeavour, it follows that all the very “clever” people who have gone through our universities must bring to common sense the same regard and reverence that they are supposed to (but don’t) bring to truth.

Truckers (and plumbers and electricians, motor mechanics and farmers and other blue collar workers) most certainly have much more common sense than the intellectual. Otherwise, the world as we know it would collapse under the weight of the foolish extrapolations and inventions of those in academia, that fly in the face of reality.

Truckers know for example, that the climate is changing but that people would starve and become naked and homeless if they should stop driving in solidarity with academics who have never driven a truck and who have been blogging about impending climate doom for decades.

All the research and pronouncements of all the white collar academics and bureaucrats, cannot change the reality of “climate change” being completely irrelevant to the Trucker delivering a load of vital food, shelter or clothing across the miles and across often dangerous driving conditions.

The Trucker also knows that the people who cry the loudest about climate change are the wealthiest, the ones most likely to take holidays in the sun when the Northern hemisphere becomes cold - and the flaky intellectuals who cannot do without air-conditioning, heated homes and a new wardrobe every few months. In the face of this flagrant hypocrisy, the Trucker believes he is doing a vital, practical task in the service of humanity. This also is common sense to the Trucker...



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