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Thor A. Hopland<p>A true <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/enlightened" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enlightened</span></a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/man" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>man</span></a> knows the benefits of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a>, <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/romanticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romanticism</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> by way of mere inference. </p><p>Power in numbers cannot be understated, as it is the foundation of <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>. <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/PublicEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicEducation</span></a> cannot be underrated, as it is the foundation of the <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/sciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciences</span></a>. <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/Congregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congregation</span></a> is there to fulfill basic needs that all humans have. Take away this and the man never grows. </p><p>The <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/manchild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manchild</span></a> is merely a result of the environment being incapable of raising a boy to become a man</p>
Curtis McHale<p>When you Don’t Like Books<br><a href="https://youtu.be/jlqrdaWlWfM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/jlqrdaWlWfM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>It’s rare that I don’t finish a book, but there have been a few. Most recently I put down The Black Swan because I felt it was a poorly written self agrandizing work written so that Taleb could show how smart he was while making up new names for established principles.</p><p>Even when I do finish a book, I don’t lik<br><a href="https://curtismchale.ca/2025/02/08/when-you-dont-like-books/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">curtismchale.ca/2025/02/08/whe</span><span class="invisible">n-you-dont-like-books/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3Threads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
janThis has been one of the central and agonizing questions of my postuniversity adulthood: Why is it, if we are so intelligent and well educated and artistic and creative and academically disciplined, that our social order is so unjust, disordered, shortsighted, and toxic? Sometimes it seems that we go to school to get cleverer about “doing the bad” rather than “doing the good.” The human being may need some relief from intellectuality if we are to gain our humanity and have a care for one another and for the earth and cosmos. The question may be: In what quality of balance does true intelligence lie?<br>—Mary C. Richards, Toward Wholeness<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/intelligence" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/intellectualism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a>
Joey van der Poel<p>With the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EuropeanParlement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanParlement</span></a> nearby, lets remember this quote by Isaac Asimov:</p><p>“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EP24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EP24</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EP2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EP2024</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a></p>
Livia<p>An intellectual advocates for social justice on a brightly lit, empty pedestal</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialjustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialjustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>advocacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/progressivevalues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progressivevalues</span></a></p>
Alexx T. Holden<p>As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Intellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/antiintellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiintellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>conservative</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CultureWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CultureWar</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/176854/republican-red-states-brain-drain" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/176854</span><span class="invisible">/republican-red-states-brain-drain</span></a></p>
SLCW💥<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rightwing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conspiracy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/lunatic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lunatic</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/StewPeters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StewPeters</span></a> believes that a legitimate, viable solution to the complex problems at our southern <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>border</span></a> is to line the border with <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/soldiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soldiers</span></a>, and have them indiscriminately gun down anyone who attempts to cross into America (a maximum B misdemeanor civil offense). This is what passes for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policy</span></a> on the right. Just suspend the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> and ignore established <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/precedent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>precedent</span></a> related to use of force. 🤦‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://www.alternet.org/influencer-shooting-aid-workers-2666122215" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alternet.org/influencer-shooti</span><span class="invisible">ng-aid-workers-2666122215</span></a></p>
Larry Russwurm<p>It seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to be no balancing idea that dystopias are also out of reach. Indeed, they seem quite obtainable if you are to listen to a lot science fiction.</p><p>Personally, I think utopias and dystopias are both out of the question for our society in any near future. The first is too perfect and the latter is too imperfect. What isn’t out of the question is improving and failing societies. Again I think people tend to latch onto the failing societies as the way things are going and dismiss improving societies as impossible fluff.</p><p>I think that this is largely the triumph of cynicism over intellectualism. This is where the cynics are considered realistic and thus more important than the intellectuals.</p><p>I think that the truth of the matter is that cynicism is easier. It is easier to point out problems than to actually fix them. The intellectual not only thinks of the problem, they provide a possible fix to the problem as well and that is harder. This is why I believe intellectuals deserve praise over cynics. As such I prefer the more optimistic entries in science fiction.</p><p>But probably the main reason that I would wish to see dystopian science fiction wiped out as much as possible is because politicians keep trying to use the worst of dystopian SF as something to aspire to. We don’t want big brother and we don’t want the handmaid’s tale. But we are at the risk of getting both at the same time! Some politicians do want this, and are too stupid to think of how to run such a society. So they are inspired by dystopian SF. Quit providing a blueprint!!!!!</p><p>If the politicians are successful, then the cynics can say their SF foresaw the future accurately. Which gives them even more street cred. This is why we must say intellectualism over cynicism, improving societies over failing societies and even utopias over dystopias!</p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/cynicism/" target="_blank">#cynicism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/cynicismrealism/" target="_blank">#cynicismRealism_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/dont-provide-a-blueprint-to-dystopia/" target="_blank">#DonTProvideABlueprintToDystopia</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/dystopias/" target="_blank">#dystopias</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/failing-society/" target="_blank">#failingSociety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/fixing-problems/" target="_blank">#fixingProblems</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/getting-big-brother-and-the-handmaids-tale-at-the-same-time/" target="_blank">#gettingBigBrotherAndTheHandmaidSTaleAtTheSameTime_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/i-want-dystopian-sf-wiped-out/" target="_blank">#IWantDystopianSFWipedOut</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/impossible-fluff/" target="_blank">#impossibleFluff_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/improving-society/" target="_blank">#improvingSociety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/intellectualism/" target="_blank">#intellectualism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/modern-science-fiction/" target="_blank">#modernScienceFiction</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/pointing-out-problems/" target="_blank">#pointingOutProblems</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/too-imperfect/" target="_blank">#tooImperfect</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/too-perfect/" target="_blank">#tooPerfect</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-tag u-category" href="https://larryrusswurm.com/tag/utopias/" target="_blank">#utopias</a></p><p><a href="https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/</a></p>
SLCW💥<p>This is the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/delusional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>delusional</span></a> nonsense that passes for <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> on the right. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/insurrectionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurrectionists</span></a> were tried by juries of their peers based on the well-established trial rules. After being found <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guilty</span></a>, they were sentenced by impartial judges, many who were appointed by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>. And their sentences were significantly lower than the guidelines called for. People like <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Palin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palin</span></a> don't care about the facts. They just want to be right, and they're happy to lie about it. </p><p><a href="https://radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-</span><span class="invisible">slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/</span></a></p>
Ralph Brooker<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Historian</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> specialist and anti-<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>activist</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OrlandoFiges" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OrlandoFiges</span></a> (‘A People’s Tragedy’) maintains that the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> of the moderate <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bolsheviks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bolsheviks</span></a> (eg Kamenev) prevented any pressure or authority being applied to Lenin’s de facto dictatorship by the end of 1917 in the immediate political aftermath of the October Revolution. Worth pausing on that thought. The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Intellect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Intellect</span></a> v. the will to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Power</span></a></p>
Adamas Nemesis<p>Meritocracy's very structure selects for the bureaucratic mentality; might embracing the whims of chance, by lot or by blood, be a better way?</p><p>Read more at my <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a>: <a href="https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/11/26/accident-of-birth-a-feature-not-a-bug/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">adamasnemesis.com/2022/11/26/a</span><span class="invisible">ccident-of-birth-a-feature-not-a-bug/</span></a></p><p>This post's featured image is Edmund Blair Leighton's "A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne".</p><p><a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/aristocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aristocracy</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/nobility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nobility</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://social.adamasnemesis.com/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a></p>
Martin Nutty<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@aallan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aallan</span></a></span> Thank you for this glorious piece of cultural history. </p><p>One of the many reasons I’ve been enjoying this community so much is the depth of intellectual capital. </p><p>In many parts of the western world, the world intellectual has become a slur. In this corner of the social media world I feel otherwise</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/expertise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expertise</span></a></p>
Thomas G. M. Blank<p>Finally, after 6+ months, here's my <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> as well. </p><p>I am a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historian</span></a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/GraecoRomanCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GraecoRomanCulture</span></a> at Mainz university, Germany. My research <br>is focused on structures of communication and the formation of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/identities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>identities</span></a> through <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> (<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/intellectualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectualism</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/rhetoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhetoric</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a>) and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a>. Further interests: <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/historiography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historiography</span></a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/anti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anti</span></a>-monarchic discourse, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ClassicalReceptions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicalReceptions</span></a>.</p><p>Thrilled to be part of this <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/polis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polis</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/rhetodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhetodons</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/antiquidons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiquidons</span></a><br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/rhetodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rhetodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>antiquidons</span></a></span> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noxp</span></a></p>