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December 20, 2015

In the culture of spectacle, the great figures are chefs and fashion designers, athletes and actors, television journalists.

Intellectuals, whose chief interest was in ideas, have been replaced by so-called public intellectuals.

These are men and women of no notable depth whose domains are the op-ed pages and the television news and talk shows. The culture of spectacle has no interest in ideas. Nor does television, its main medium, which makes all ideas banal. Whatever Happened to High Culture? | The Weekly Standard

Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 20, 2015 10:46 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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OK, I'll play.

The intellectuals at the centers of so-called higher learning, such as colleges and universities, engender a culture of politically-correct censorship, double-speak themselves into banality through Derridarian deconstructionism. and prostitute themselves for global warming-propaganda grant money, and we're supposed to pretend they're interested in ideas?

IDEAS??

Heck, The Knick on Cinemax has more interest in the "world of ideas" than the average intellectual.

Posted by: Fausta [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 21, 2015 6:45 AM

It'll be a cold dy in hell before I knowingly click on a Weekly Standard link. Second only to NR in terms of damage to conservatives.

Posted by: bilejones [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 21, 2015 5:01 PM

"The Knick on Cinemax has more interest in the "world of ideas" than the average intellectual."

I'm stealing that.

Posted by: Van der Leun [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 21, 2015 5:02 PM

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