Intellectuals and totalitarianism (was Re: WORLD GOVERNMENT)

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From: Gary Strand
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:31

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f > "Frank" (Robin Collins)

f > Some extremely intelligent people have been fundamentalists, or dogmatists.
f > Such is fuel for fascism.  I think some of the libertarians are right in
f > this area of thought (and which is why people like Chomsky call themselves
f > libertarian socialists, I suspect.) Any thoughts?

  On what? That we agree that being an intellectual is no safeguard against
  falling for totalitarian's propaganda? Or that being an intellectual is
  no guarantee against being wrong, or just ignorant and stupid? Makes one
  wonder why so many intellectuals are of leftist persuasion, doesn't it?

  Sometimes I think your average blue-collar Joe Steelworker has more sense
  and wisdom than all the lefty intellectuals infesting academia and the
  "elite".


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Gary Strand                      Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu            not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF

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