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Author draws attention to disparity between what leading intellectuals do and proclaim in their public lives. Shows the real nitty gritty of their actual selfish and self-indulgent lives as they were surrounded by enablers. Like the religious leaders ... Read More
Paul johnson at his usual iconoclast role. Great thinker who knew what was best for the workers of the world never set foot in a mill, factory, mine, or any other industrial workplace. Johnson also displays the real reason marx hated capitalism - beca... Read More
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Johnson also blames fellow-travelling intellectuals for the permissive society. Left-wing westerners are more likely to cast aspersions on and flout societal institutions. Most of the essays are just a series of biographical anecdotes about what a cad... Read More
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- This product had a total of 184 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 4 2023.
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Supposedly for the people they very nearly always had no personal connection whatsoever with real people
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Johnson shows that in many 34gardens34 there were nothing but a whole lot of weeds
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For johnson an 34intellectual34 is pretty clearly anybody who thinks he can jettison all the received wisdom of the past particularly of inherited religious tradition and reinvent society from the ground up using nothing but the unaided power of the human mind his or her own
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Further refining this notion he particularly singles out those who believe in 34ideas rather than people
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And sure enough they turn out to have botched it completely lovers of humanity that they were they seem to have been incapable of dealing fairly or decently with any actual individual human beings with whom they came in contact
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Perhaps most central is that the intellectuals public stance on moral and political issues often flagrantly contradicts the values they practice in their own private lives
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Of course johnsons attack on solely liberal thinkers leads to the complaint of many that an analysis of many conservative intellectuals would render the same results
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