Intellectuals. Are there any left? The people who used to be intellectuals are busy dumbing down universities and awarding A’s all round in an effort to boost enrollment. Their colleagues preach deconstructionism and relativism and are proud to have no standards of behaviour, ethics or morals whatsoever. Anything goes and intellectually it seems a lot of them went.
That leaves us, the second rank, the obscure, the tryers, the people of whom the real intellectuals of yesteryear said, “Ah, the 1962 intake, not a distinguished year.” Yet here we are pontificating on the meaning of life and death in the absence of thought from others. Who would have thought it? In the land of the blind and increasingly illiterate the half-brained man is king.
P.S In case you are tempted to challenge my ranking as a Top Intellectual, at least admit I was able to string some words together to make an English sentence. Q.E.D
We know that. It’s why you don’t get as many hits as Paris Hilton Nude.
I have watched your blog for a long time and this is the first time I have posted. I don’t think you are a second class intellectual.
I don’t understand how you find the time for all this. Don’t you have a job?
It’s all hot air. In the real world gunmakers make guns and soldiers patrol in Baghdad. As a defense lobbyist I am amazed that you can be bothered with all this liberal stuff.
Don’t you people even have a glimmer of a sense of humor? Do you ever find yourselves even remotely ridiculous?