tehag
2008-04-22 08:34:25
I haven’t read and probably won’t read the book. Did she draw upon Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) and Neal Stephenson (In the Beginning Was the Command Line).
IMHO, American anti-intellectualism has been vindicated by the behavior of the intellectuals who justified Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, and now Chavez and Osama. The are too numerous to list but include (in English) Shaw, Wells, Webb, Chomsky; (in German) Heidegger; (in French) Sartre, Beauvoir, Fanon, etc. etc.
Middlebrow has declined because the emperor of highbrow has no clothes. Bluntly: there is no reason to pursue ‘highbrow’ politics and literature because these justify and lead to mass murder and oppression.
tehag
