On Jul 6, 2008, at 10:44 AM, shag wrote:
> seriously, tho, i think carrol is spot on. there is an expectation
> that intellectuals are better than, superior to, ordinary people.
Who holds such an expectations? Professor-bashing is a pastime of bar louts, Bill O'Reilly, and the occasional union organizer. Professors = intellectuals = out of touch lazy elitists. In the immortal words of Charlie Daniels:
> What most people call a redneck
> Ain't nothin' but a workin' man
> And he makes his livin'
> By the sweat of his brow
> And the calluses on his hands
> Now you intellectuals may not like it
> But there ain't nothin' that you can do
> Cause there's a whole lot more of us common-folks
> Then there ever will be of you
I can't think of many professor-bashers who do so because they fail to live up to some intellectual ideal.
Doug