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To: epicure who wrote (95244)	11/11/2008 9:36:34 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541851

the mistakes of the "1st 100 names in the phone book" aren't documented I am as aghast at anti-intellectualism as you are, but I didn't take from that article what you did. I took from it that we may not be very good judges of who is or isn't an intellectual and that being an intellectual doesn't necessarily mean that you have the right answers. I think that those are both very good points. Intellectuals aren't necessary identifiable by their membership in cool intellectual circles. And cool intellectual circles can be subject to groupthink and all the other negative group behaviors including including and excluding people for factors other than their intellectual chops. Also, there are clusters of intellectuals with competing ideas. They're all intellectuals but, when they disagree, they can't all be right. I have a great appreciation for intellectualism. I'm something of a minor one, myself, in temperament, at least, in my interest in and comfort with ideas and complexity. But intellectualism isn't some kind of trump card. It's as much of a mistake, IMO, to believe someone just because he's an intellectual as to eschew intellectualism.