On Feb 12, 2007, at 12:29 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> question: what's at stake here? why does anyone care what an
> intellectual
> is? has someone claimed that we can't get anywhere without them? has
> someone claimed we can't get anywhere with them? why harm do they
> do? what
> good do they do? are we supposed to want more or fewer
> intellectuals? has
> someone claimed that anti-intellectualism is the problem? is there
> general
> agreement or sharp disagreement over the notion that anti-
> intellectualism
> is good or bad thing for left social struggle?
For me, it's an extension of the activistism piece <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html> that Liza, Christian, and I wrote. American political culture is deeply and often proudly dumb, and it bothers me.
Doug