I’m not sure I can think of one public intellectual who isn’t in some (often obvious) way full of shit. I used to think that said something about the type of person who stives for the position. And it does. But now I mostly think it’s inevitably induced by the position itself.
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Replying to @generativist
Yeah I think that, when somebody is constantly told how smart they are and are held up as some shining example of intellectual, they start to lose context and believe that they know everything - even for things way outside their speciality.
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