But this....
"because intellectuals stopped identifying themselves with people who work for a living, and instead became lackeys of the money grubbing entrepreneurial class, begging for scraps from their tables and aping their manners and their speech."
....makes me wonder: when did intellectuals as a whole ever identify themselves with people who work for a living? It seems to me that's mostly what they have always done.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- When I was a student, deep down behind the Iron Curtain, an event took place that shaped my thinking about freedom for the years to come. I was invited to a boozing party organized by the local university students. The times were the 1970s and it was chic to be a political dissident, so the conversation centered on kvetching about “the system.” Alas, there was a fellow there, a student at the local Higher School of Agriculture we were told, who remained silent.
http://wsokol.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-short-soliloquy-on-freedom-and-fishing.html
-- Wojtek
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