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RAB910

(3,501 posts)
Sat May 30, 2020, 01:29 PM May 2020

Truer words have not been written

America has marched drunkenly into the gutter of what could be termed cultural democracy — a pathological condition in which all opinions are equal, and to argue otherwise invites accusations of snobbery, pretentiousness and down-the-nose contempt for the "forgotten man."...


The true villain in a cultural democracy is the intellectual. The intellectual insists on standards of evidence, reason and logic when attempting to reach a conclusion regarding a matter of social import. She undermines the dogma that all nonsense is created equal, which renders her (or indeed him) unfit for participation in the increasingly masochistic rituals of liberty.


https://www.salon.com/2020/05/30/anti-intellectualism-is-back--because-it-never-went-away-and-its-killing-americans/
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Truer words have not been written (Original Post) RAB910 May 2020 OP
K&R Thanks for posting. alwaysinasnit May 2020 #1
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