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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Titles, Singles, and CS
Message-ID: <5556@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 21:55:31 EST
Article-I.D.: kestrel.5556
Posted: Fri Mar  7 21:55:31 1986
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In article <1845@hammer.UUCP>, seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
> In article <646@hounx.UUCP> kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
> >People at large are not only turned off by intelligence, they assassinate
> >intelligent people.  
> > Look at Socrates, 
who was a politician
> > Jesus, 
likewise,
> >Galileo, 
who was a little like a bull in a china shop, politically motivated,
> >Spinoza, Gandhi,
politician
> >Thoreau, 
> Thoreau was assassinated?
> >Lincoln, Kennedy, King, Palme.  
politicians.
> >Then look at the assassins:
> >political authorities, religious authorities, fanatics and terrorists.
Surprise, surprise.

Only Spinoza was not a politician in the above list.

The USA does have a long tradition of anti-intellectualism, which
has been documented by a historian whose name escapes me.
Anyone remember?

But as for assassinating intellectuals, I don't think
the point is made.

Peter Ladkin