On Nov 8, 2013, at 7:36 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> "Intellectuals" (I'm bothered by the term but don't quite know why) find
> themselves 'distanced' from the toiling masses; they don't _distance_
> themselves.
When Joanna posted "The whole point of being an intellectual, it seems, was to distance yourself from working class.", my first reaction was to suggest that the point might also be viewed as an exercise in rationalizing the intellectual's distance from the proletariat.