“Bacon also recognized that the smart and well educated are more susceptible to the idols of the theatre, precisely because they are smart and well educated”

Once again, Stove : “But the more powerful minds will fall into the worship of some dangerous and intelligent lunatic like Plato, Augustine or Hegel, Comte or Marx” I’d add Obama, but his real talent is inspiring the masses(which, of course, is far more dangerous); indeed this in an important skill, but it doesn’t require exorbitant degrees of intelligence. His talents as a demogogue far outweigh his intellectual abilities; that’s the part that scares me the most.