[lbo-talk] Growing moderatism in academia

[Nicholas Ruiz III]

it's true...look at the leaders the masses choose
from...surely, there is no greater sign of the
collective intelligence, when we in America put up the
most thoughtful (and wealthiest) of contenders, like
barack and john...our utopian destiny is all but
secured by virtue of our collective political
insight...who dares to question such proof?

NRIII

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 
> On Jul 6, 2008, at 1:51 PM, shag wrote:
> 
> > well, i'm trying to understand. you say anti
> intellectualism is  
> > about valorizing labor, right? why do
> intellectuals valorize manual  
> > labor? you don't have to get his point to answer
> me.
> 
> I've seen it here, I've seen it at WBAI and the
> Brecht Forum and  
> places like that. It usually involves a ritual
> self-flagellation  
> about how out-of-touch mental workers are, and how
> the truly  
> authentic are the toilers. It's mainly a silly thing
> of not much  
> consequence, far less socially toxic than the sense
> among elite  
> intellectuals that the masses are a bunch of idiots.
> But it is annoying.
> 
> Of course, there's also the ancient American
> anti-intellectual  
> impulse that Hofstadter wrote about too.
> 
> Doug
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Dr. Nicholas Ruiz III
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities, Cultural and Studio Arts
Daytona State College
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Daytona Beach, FL 32120-2811
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