Observation O’ The Day
That was last century. This century the intellectuals are trying to bring to America what they did to Europe in the 20th.
Quote O’ The Day
From the book In The Beginning Was The Command Line by Neal Stephenson
“During this century [the 20th] intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well. We Americans are the only ones who didn’t get creamed at some point during all of this. We are free and prosperous because we have inherited political and values systems fabricated by a particular set of eighteenth-century intellectuals who happened to get it right. But we have lost touch with those intellectuals.”