re: #44 ClaudeMonet

IMO this is an example of the Law of Unintended Consequences. The intellectuals, by spending years trying to mobilize the masses by talking down to them and attacking the institutions in which the masses believed, have succeeded in turning the masses away from the very education and intellectualism that created and motivated the educated.

This sounds like an elaboration on the Al Gore Criticism: Al Gore has defeated the cause to fight AGW because of the way he’s promoted the cause to fight AGW.

Except he’s not an intellectual.