Bloom's dread was of the Rolling Stones; now elder statesmen - Sir Mick Jagger, once arrested for soft drugs. This reeks of his attempting to separate culture

Bloom's dread was of the Rolling Stones; now elder statesmen - Sir Mick Jagger, once arrested for soft drugs. This reeks of his attempting to separate culture into low and high, and no, he shouldn't have to explain himself. Oh really? Computer science has a long border with linguistics. Somewhere on the other side of that border is rhetoric - the Liberal Art - so computer science is a roundabout way there. This completely ignores the two most significant intellectual innovations - that of Claude Shannon, which revolutionized physics itself and of Godel, who diagonalized logic itself ( at least the Peano calculus ). These represent towering intellectual achievements unlike any other in history. Trying to map classical society onto modern society is an exercise in futility. Classicals were bloody, venal, voracious and cruel. Our engineers, whether they're called that or not, made the difference. We live after the Scots Enlightenment, in which Man was freed from a destiny as a draft animal with thumbs. As an exposition of the phenomenon in the article, I much prefer "I Am Charlotte Simmons."