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Re: Nearly 20 Percent Of Scientists Contemplate Moving Overseas Due In Part To Seques
Thomas Sowell, one of the few good intellectuals, on intellectuals influence on society:
Intellectuals and Society - Thomas Sowell - Page full
Should be required reading.
The concluding paragraphs of the above link:
Thomas Sowell, one of the few good intellectuals, on intellectuals influence on society:
Intellectuals and Society - Thomas Sowell - Page full
Should be required reading.
The concluding paragraphs of the above link:
The ideas that Karl Marx created in the 19th century dominated the course of events over wide portions of the world in the 20th century. Whole generations suffered, and millions were killed, as a result of those ideas. This was not Marx's intention, nor the intentions of many supporters of Marxian ideas in countries around the world. But it is what happened.
Some of the most distinguished intellectuals in the Western world in the 1930s gave ringing praise to the Soviet Union, while millions of people there were literally starved to death and vast numbers of others were being shipped off to slave labor camps.
Many of those same distinguished intellectuals of the 1930s were urging their own countries to disarm while Hitler was rapidly arming Germany for wars of conquest that would have, among other things, put many of those intellectuals in concentration camps-- slated for extermination-- if he had succeeded.
The 1930s were by no means unique. In too many other eras-- including our own today-- intellectuals of unquestionable brilliance have advocated similarly childish and dangerous notions. How and why such patterns have existed among intellectuals is a challenging question, whose answer can determine the fate of millions of other people.
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