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Wilfred Reilly on Thomas Sowell

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The Problems of Intellectuals in Society

Only maybe ten % of the useful knowledge in o society is with the alites, or the intellectuals, as he would call them. The other 90% is widely distributed among the population. There are three or four consistent problems that our intellectual class has. They are very often talking about things that don't require disciplined, specific skills. Is just obvious bias. And when people try to defend and say, what? You can't necessarily prove that first while people have a grievance.

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