tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4810075929207110298..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: IntellectualsAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-73000309499684819292009-05-18T13:51:00.000-04:002009-05-18T13:51:00.000-04:00I find this passage does not make me analyze the "...I find this passage does not make me analyze the "intellectuals" so much as it makes me look inward. We make deals with the convenient and practical every day. I can only hope that I can be as clear about how and where to draw the line should I ever need to. <br />This passage demonstrate how the words and concepts of "being rational" and "to rationalize", although from the same root, can create very different results when implemented.Dubbahdeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075702513873912334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-77934760493230948522009-05-17T16:55:00.000-04:002009-05-17T16:55:00.000-04:00The intellectuals think survival means you are sma...The intellectuals think survival means you are smart, i.e. survival of the fittest. They think they are smart and therefore will conform in any situation in order to survive. Truly smart people know "death is not the worst of evils." The rabbis and priests were truly smart.Boethiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00755968985821460943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-79805626928565826032009-05-17T15:44:00.000-04:002009-05-17T15:44:00.000-04:00As an aside, there is a breed of intellectual who ...As an aside, there is a breed of intellectual who never seems to understand that the work of a minister/rabbi/priest is <I>both</I> intellectual and moral.<br /><br />Perhaps because some intellectuals only rarely touch the moral part of their profession, they are so easily swept up into aiding and abetting--or even standing idly by--while such monstrous deeds are done.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.com