Not too hard to be intelligent when you have a monopoly on the means of knowledge transfer (books) and the time to persue leisurely learning. But it all change

Not too hard to be intelligent when you have a monopoly on the means of knowledge transfer (books) and the time to persue leisurely learning. But it all changed widespread literacy. To steal a quote from Hilbert, "No one shall expell as from the paradise Guttenberg has created".