It's not a responsibility of intellectuals, it's a responsibility of individuals to think critically about what they are being told and for the most part ignore

It's not a responsibility of intellectuals, it's a responsibility of individuals to think critically about what they are being told and for the most part ignore appeals to ethos and pathos. In theory the sophists were wrong, but in practice they were right. Assume that when a person speaks it is for their own personal benefit. Most people are talking their book.