>by your reasoning
Huh? Even if I likened eating to following intellectual’s theories of society, human nature, and government, clearly a starvation diet, that is, the separation of intellect and government, is preferable to letting intellectuals run the place. Less indulgence in greasy, fatty, sugary foods leads to a longer life; less indulgence in faddish or incompetent theories leads to a better government.
> theft of intellectual…
Alas, there was no theft: intellectuals threw themselves whole-heartedly, fully, and without reservation into supporting mass murder in the pursuit of the Jew-free or bourgeoisie-free europe. If only it were theft. The problem isn’t, for example, that Lenin (an intellectual) misused the ideas of Shaw (another intellectual), it’s that Shaw vigorously defended Stalin and lied about the nature of Stalinism. In a Venn diagram of intellectuals and honesty, the overlap is very small.
> Aquinas, Confucius..
I concede that once a millennium or so, a decent, humane intellectual arises. What Aquinas has to do with intellectuals 800 years after his death and who cannot be said to be disciples of his, escapes me: I’d be happy to have dinner with Aquinas and listen to and perhaps entertain some of his theories of government and society. Wells, Shaw, Sartre, Chomsky… aren’t fit for a bowl at the local kennel. They are regarded as the brightest lights of morality and reason in our time and, unfortunately, they are. They and their works should be regarded with suspicion and hostility.
> Evolution leads inexorably to Auschwitz
Definitely one of the dumbest claims I’ve seen since… well, the last time I listened to Sartre, Chomsky, Moore, Spurlock, Heiddegger, Derrida, Strauss, DeMan…
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