Jockes aside, the new danger to the knowledge and the society is the digital editing of the original textbooks. For example, it would provide an easy tool to eliminate from history textbooks references to Founding Fathers, Natural Law etc.and other information that creates obstacles for liberal progressives to advance their agenda. There are many other ares, where digital editing without consent of the original author will be handy ( e.g. economic textbooks)
Just watch for it. :-|

digital editing of the original textbooks
Hmm... aren't those books copyrighted? As far as I know, that should prevent any sort of editing w/out consent of the author or the publishing house (whoever owns the copyright)...

Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?***********.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-20n1-1.html
good analysis about modern intellectuals..why they feel the way they do toward the rest of society - entitlement and feeling superior..
eventhough the article is kinda old, still true..

However, even those intellectuals who do not mix socially are similarly resentful, while merely mixing is not enough--the sports and dancing instructors who cater to the rich and have affairs with them are not noticeably anti-capitalist.Why then do contemporary intellectuals feel entitled to the highest rewards their society has to offer and resentful when they do not receive this?

Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution "to each according to his merit or value." Apart from the gifts, inheritances, and gambling winnings that occur in a free society, the market distributes to those who satisfy the perceived market-expressed demands of others, and how much it so distributes depends on how much is demanded and how great the alternative supply is. Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.

Two future intellectuals from UC Berkely talk about the 32% tuition hike. ( unaware that the cuts to UC system happened because the public labor unions must have their luxurious pension packages).
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Света, ролик , который исчез вместе с кофейной гущей, вот здесь:
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пасиб (H) он мне оч нравится :-$ как токо наши интеллектуалы опять нести начнут, я их сразу буду отправлять к оригиналу..:-)