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Birth Control Works1/23/2011 11:47:40 am PST

re: #130 Obdicut

The topic at hand used the word ‘intellectual’ in that sense? How so?

re: #44 ClaudeMonet

re: #26 Obdicut

Danger: America Is Losing Its Edge In Innovation

Anti-intellectualism is starting to reap us a bitter harvest.

Seriously, the nativists and anti-intellectuals couldn’t be doing a better job of ruining the future of this country if they were trying to.

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.

I am NOT saying that nativism and anti-intellecutalism are in any way correct or justified. I am saying that years of telling people how they should live, what they should believe, etc., without consideration for the core beliefs of those being lectured to, have boomeranged on the intellectuals.