Carl Remick wrote:
> >From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> >
> >Justin writes:
> >
> >>I just love American left anti-intellectualism. Who needs a buncha
> >>pointy heads sayin things good plain folk cain't unnerstan, anyway?
> >
> >It makes sense *for the Right* to put out anti-intellectual
> >propaganda ...
>
> Why? Somebody just the other day posted to the list a comment indicating
> that the right now commands the high grounds of intellectual effort, what
> with conservatives' ample funding of bulging-brain think tanks, etc. I
> think the comment is absurd, since conservative "thinking" is never more
> than sophistry, served up by cartoonish figures like, say, Myron Magnet.
> (If you want a good laugh, see:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29108-2001Apr2.html)
>
> As for supposed lefist "anti-intellectualism," we have to maintain the
> always -- throughout the ages -- critical distinction between true
> intellectual achievement and idle pedantry. E.g., Pope: "the bookful
> blockhead ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head," "words
> are like leaves, and where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is
> rarely found," and so on.
>
> Carl
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