Intellectuals
Overthink
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The Right Wing Public Intellectual
Edward Said's 1994 book, Representations of the Intellectual, is based on some lectures that he did for the BBC. The intellectual is neither a pacifier nor a consensus builder, but someone whose whole being is staked on a critical sense. He describes this critical sense as a sense of being unwilling to accept easy formulas or ready made cliches. Joe Rogan: I see our role as disseminators of philosophical knowledge and like we are trying to get young people interested in philosophy.
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