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I gotta say, I'm impressed by how you've turned "intelectual" into a pejorative.

• asgard1024 12y ago
  I really didn't - I wrote "intelectual-elitist". It's their choice to have disgusting opinions. Perhaps I am too cynical, I have been reading too much Chomsky lately. :-) Edit: Let me give you a Chomsky quote: "Actually, I should say, the term "manufacturing consent" is not mine, I took it from Walter Lippmann, the leading public intellectual and leading media figure of the twentieth century, who thought it was a great idea. He said we should manufacture consent, that's the way democracies should work. There should be a small group of powerful people, and the rest of the population should be spectators, and you should force them to consent by controlling, regimenting their minds. That's the leading idea of democratic theorists, and the public relations industry and so on, so I'm not making it up. In fact, I'm just borrowing their conception, and telling other people what they think." This is what the paper appears to be advocating, as well.