Isaiah Berlin's Distinction With Popularity Is Pernicious

The idea of popularity being a proxy for intelligence slash authority is pernicious. As long as i have sufficient number of followers and i am sufficiently popular, that my words carry weight. The very notion of what it means to be influential is not because they are so impressive in being able to come up with this interesting idea or link these things together. We're living in such a narcissus tic, follower driven worlds. I quite agree withyou everything you've said. But there's another thing which i find just as bad - the idea that you should be coerced to tow a line which is the approved line of the banpenson intellectual er culture. You know, you have to sign