The Intellectuals Are Not Interested in Being Useful

i think it's a good analogy maybe i'll say one thing and then you can reply and then we should stop uh so i think that um you can imagine two different restaurants right one kind of restaurant is saying look all we do is give you good food. The government comes to that restaurant and they're like look we know you really care about improving the world if you poison or give bad food to these people i no longer know what your argument is going to be back against that government. I'm inclined to say that the intellectuals it's more natural to think of the mass pacifists as people who are fundamentally interested in learning and knowing  and not fundamentally interested in being useful.