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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Barry Kort's Intellectual Observations - Some Further Thoughts
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 00:27:15 EST
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In article <991@cybvax0.UUCP> mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz) writes:
>In article <12485@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
>> This can't be true.  In most of Europe and Japan intellectuals are held in
>> high regard.  In particular, the latest philosophical or literary rage is
>> considered a superstar on par with rock musicians in the United States.
>
>Oh, you mean they are harassed and pilloried by conservatives and their works
>are burned by fundamentalists.  :-(

Yes.  This is what happened to intellectuals when Germany went Nazi.

>The fact that one has groupies and other fans doesn't imply protection from
>the rest of society.

Correct.  But they ARE held in high regard, unlike intellectuals in the
United States.  So whatever comment I was asserting about intellectuals
that you deleted can't be true.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720