it's the people who are capable of analysis see how absurd and sometimes dangerous their many ideas have been ..
********en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

actor, journalist, and college professors, and onethingabout all those jobs is there isn’t a real objective way tomeasurewhether you’re doing well or not.
Маша, that's a good point ... also a lot of people in the above mentioned professions, feel like they do work for the sake of humanity, have a superior perception of what they do, often full of themselves, sometimes scew the truth to support their worldviews..
once I heard a segment on Hollywood elites and the kind of people they are in everyday live - when we see their interviews, hear about their contributions to humanity, donations, etc..we get a perception they are great humanitarians, put their fame to good use, care about the unfortunate in this world..people who work with them and know them personally have told completely different accounts - how nasty and mean they are to others in their everyday lives...I bet the same can be said about many intellectuals..(ch)

Алексей,
Никогда не спорьте с дураком, он опустит вас до своего уровня и победит вас на своей территории!!!!!
Я вижу с кем имею дело!

"vacation is a right,".....
interesting, we had very similar situation with our ex-friends who happen to be very conservative. They stayed with us ,never contributed anything, didn't even do the dishes once...and then continued the same line of behavior for a number of years....I got sick of being used and we are not friends anymore. Guess people who are "users" happen in any camp

Никогда не спорьте с дураком, он опустит вас до своего уровня и победит вас на своей территории!!!!!
that's exactly what you've been doing in every discussion..;-)

that's exactly what you've been doing in every discussion
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I see ;) and I completely agree with you!

Никогда не спорьте с дураком, он опустит вас до своего уровня и победит вас на своей территории!!!!!
Вот именно поэтому мы с вами и не спорим, дорогой Шурик Алинский. :-D

Мария,
судя по всем вашим дискуссиям
вы образованная и интеллигентная
женщина зачем мне с вами спорить?
Ведь вы мне не навязываете моё мнение
и за кого я должен голосавать?

what do you think professors do? Seriously, how do youimagine yourself that job? Especially those in exact sciences andengineering?
They teach students, and indoctrinate them subliminally in their liberal ideas. The very fact that they decided to pursue a professorship comes from the fact that they are liberal first. There was an amusing study that showed that liberally minded people tend to want to be professors. So, they teach their chemistry courses, and throw in their liberal attitudes in between the formulas. I went to universities here, I saw it. The only conservative professor in my latest school ( who was the best infectious disease lecturer and the best preceptor), eventually left the school and went to work for a pharmaceutical industry.
And on a personal note, my significant other is a professor ( conservative:-D ) - a minority.

We make bonfires on our street on a weekly basis. We especially love to burn encyclopedia Britannica ( very high BTU)(H)

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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(H)

пасиб (H) он мне оч нравится :-$ как токо наши интеллектуалы опять нести начнут, я их сразу буду отправлять к оригиналу..:-)