Where have all the intellectuals gone?
Where have all the intellectuals gone?
In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere in which intellectuals and the general public can talk to each other again
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Re: Where have all the intellectuals gone?
2 posts in of pure tosh....
“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― George Carlin
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” -George Orwell.
― George Carlin
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” -George Orwell.
Re: Where have all the intellectuals gone?
I'm right here... haven't you been reading my posts?Where have all the intellectuals gone?
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
Re: Where have all the intellectuals gone?
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. - Oscar Wilde
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