something rotten in the state of Denmark

    '... So of course the intellectual is considered marginal
    in today's society ...'

    My skin crawls to hear yet another recital of this great
    division between the slopeheads - gullible victims of the money
    conspiracy - & the intellectuals, that precious minority who
    'think more deeply' but are sullenly rejected for their 'smartness'
    by an envious biomass.

    In my case the brain-washing with the success myth began
    in infancy when my mother - my very own mother, dammit -
    used to tell me the story of the girl Julia Roberts' chum called
    Cinder-fucking-ella.

    (Not so long before, when the intellectuals were in the saddle,
    when the thinkers' establishment was as much church as
    university-based - & by no means marginalised - the acquiescence
    of the masses was obtained with a similar promise: that of life
    after death.)

    Despite their advantage of brains & diligence, the intellectuals
    themselves are - strangely - excused all blame for this awful
    state of affairs.

    It seems to be all OUR fault. We don't read carefully enough,
    aren't willing 'to make the effort', don't care about books deeply
    enough, don't turn up for PTA meetings, swallow any old shit
    pumped out by Hollywood & the television. Et cetera. Et cetera.

    It couldn't, I suppose, have anything to do with THEIR
    navel-centred obsessions, THEIR jargon-loaded signalling to
    each other, THEIR reluctance (or, whisper it, could it be their
    inability?) to write plain words, & above all, that insistently
    misunderstood, ill-done-by whine that informs so many of their
    utterances.

    No? I thought not.

    Scottie B.

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