Tuesday, May 13, 2008
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
Public intellectuals.
PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL SMACKDOWN"
I read a lot of these guys.
In the comments they mention that the apparent dearth of public thought is that the bushies all but squash any such 'puttin' on airs'. Anti-intellectual. Anti-science. Anti-everything but them.
I think this is so. Republicans have a more fixed ideological agenda. Look how they slavishly follow the party line.
The Kennedy administration supported intellectuals to a fault.
Jimmy Carter less so.
Clinton to an extent.
No matter.
I think the point of the article is that you can't hold it down long.
The internet has aroused the intellectual rabble and their work is being published.
Many of the periodicals named are printing the work of former 'net heads.
