30 August 2006

intellectuals

“The word intellectual strikes me as odd. Personally I’ve never met any intellectuals…On the other hand, I’ve met a lot of people who talk about ‘the intellectual.’ And, listening to them, I’ve got some idea of what such an animal could be. It’s not difficult – he’s quite personified. He’s guilty about pretty well everything: about speaking out and about keeping silent, about doing nothing and about getting involved in everything…In short, the intellectual is raw material for a verdict, a sentence, a condemnation, an exclusion…”
- Michel Foucault

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous12:25 AM

    So this lovely state I call home, and it really is lovely at times, has the second to lowest SAT scores in the US. It also is the 8th fattest state in the US--in other words, the world. I'm glad everyone here is so smart and healthy. And we wonder why I'm leaving.

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