Thursday, May 12, 2011

Why don't we love our intellectuals?

Taken from the Guardian UK - Much of topic applies to USA as well.



While France celebrates its intelligentsia, you have to go back to Orwell and Huxley to find British intellectuals at the heart of national public debate. Why did we stop caring about ideas? When did 'braininess' become a laughing matter?


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