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All that knowledge 😩😭 all those stories.
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals; for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant, or a scapegoat. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter.
consist in what he does, or even in the fact that he exists, but who represents, rather, an archetypal opponent in a spiritual wrestling match. He has not one whit less reality because the fundamentalists have never met him in the flesh. -Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter.
accommodate each other in order to survivebut only as a clash of faiths. It is not concerned with the realities of power-with the fact, say, that the Soviets have the bomb-but with the spiritual battle with the Communist, preferably the domestic Communist, whose reality does not
which is absolutely right, and looks upon politics as an arena in which that right must be realized. It cannot think, for example, of the cold war as a question of mundane politics-that is to say, as a conflict between two systems of power that are compelled in some degree to
the distinctively political intelligence begins with the political world, and attempts to make an assessment of how far a given set of goals can in fact be realized in the face of a certain balance of opposing forces, the secularized fundamentalist mind begins with a definition of that
It cannot find serious importance in what it believes to be trifling degrees of difference: liberals support measures that are for all practical purposes socialistic, and socialism is nothing more than a variant of Communism, which, as everyone knows, is atheism. Whereas
The fundamentalist mind will have nothing to do with all this: it is essentially Manichean; it looks upon the world as an arena for conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, and accordingly it scorns compromises (who would compromise with Satan?) and can tolerate no ambiguities.
It shows you how to figure out what the weather will be. There isn't another book that it is necessary for anyone to read, and therefore I am opposed to all libraries.
-Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter.
The sad way you can see this reflect in life to this day.
On this count, the shabby history of the Klan speaks eloquently. So does the panic of the fundamentalists. The Georgia assemblyman who said:
Read the Bible. It teaches you how to act. Read the hymn-book. It contains the finest poetry ever written. Read the almanac.
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Not least of them was Cotton Mather, who held to his position even though a bomb was thrown into his study by anti-inoculation agitators. -Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter.
🎶 Some things never change 🎶
In the most controversial and stirring of all scientific questions of the day, that of the adoption of inoculation for smallpox, outstanding clerical intellectuals once again took the lead in defending innovation.
something: some oppression, fraud, illusion, dogma, or interest is constantly falling under the scrutiny of the intellectual. -Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
power of intellect than if it permits them. To be sure, intellectuals, contrary to the fantasies of cultural vigilantes, are hardly ever subversive of a society as a whole. But intellect is always on the move against
Further, there is no way of guaranteeing that an intellectual class will be discreet and restrained in the use of its influence; the only assurance that can be given to any community is that it will be far worse off if it denies the free uses of the
one can guarantee what will be the outcome, except that many objects, ends and institutions will be surely doomed. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril, and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place."
In a certain sense the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous. Left free, there is nothing it will not reconsider, analyze, throw into question. "Let us admit the case of the conservative,” John Dewey once wrote. "If we once start thinking no
in fact, its leading practitioners seemed to care little for the difference between a Communist and a unicorn. -Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter
his bullying was welcomed because it satisfied a craving for revenge and a desire to discredit the type of leadership the New Deal had made prominent.
Had the Great Inquisition been directed only against Communists, it would have tried to be more precise and discriminating in its search for them:
To them, his proliferating multiple accusations were a positive good, because they widened the net of suspicion and enabled it to catch many victims who were no longer, or had never been, Communists;
The McCarthyist fellow travelers who announced that they approved of the senator's goals even though they disapproved of his methods missed the point: to McCarthy's true believers what was really appealing about him were his methods, since his goals were always utterly nebulous.
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often obsessively engaged with this or that outworn or rejected idea. Few intellectuals are without moments of anti-intellectualism; few anti-intellectuals without singleminded intellectual passions.
-Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter.
In any case, anti-intellectualism is not the creation of people who are categorically hostile to ideas.
Quite the contrary: just as the most effective enemy of the educated man may be the half-educated man, so the leading anti-intellectuals are usually men deeply engaged with ideas,
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My chibichibi girl - I’ll get in jammies now.
*goes over to my pj drawer to get something to wear.*
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