17-09-2013, 11:59 PM
According to Alan Bullock, Hitler once said, "Words build bridges into unexplored regions."
In Tom Bethell's work on Eric Hoffer, he quotes from Hoffer's unfinished work on intellectuals:
We see in Hitler a contempt for intellectuals: "ntellectuals run this way and that, like hens in a poultry yard. With them it is impossible to make history."
And, again, in Hoffer, a cynical view of intellectuals as seeing in the common man only building material for sand castles of ego.
I posit the open door leads out of the roomful of dictators either antiintellectual or intellectual, of would-be mechanics of the spirit
Buddhists would say desire is the root of suffering
They are of those who insist the ego is merely clothing and cell phone and credit cards to be left on the edge of the pool of consciousness
Why then all these Nigerian scams pushing everyone's head under water
First round up the shrieking fairies of the Ministry of Truth in all its letters ABC-PhD
Load them onto planes, trains and automobiles to be imbedded the hell out of here
Leaving the marching boots and the barking Sunstein, we take a narrowing path
On the mesa the murmuring figures 'round the fire
Voices like brookwater
Schema in the smoke
and spark
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In Tom Bethell's work on Eric Hoffer, he quotes from Hoffer's unfinished work on intellectuals:
The intellectual knows with every fiber of his being that all men are not equal, and there are few things that he cares for less than a classless society. No matter how genuine the intellectual's altruism, he regards the common man as a means.
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is a threat to the worker's sense of worth. Any social order…which can function well with a minimum of leadership will be an anathema to the intellectual.
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is a threat to the worker's sense of worth. Any social order…which can function well with a minimum of leadership will be an anathema to the intellectual.
We see in Hitler a contempt for intellectuals: "ntellectuals run this way and that, like hens in a poultry yard. With them it is impossible to make history."
And, again, in Hoffer, a cynical view of intellectuals as seeing in the common man only building material for sand castles of ego.
I posit the open door leads out of the roomful of dictators either antiintellectual or intellectual, of would-be mechanics of the spirit
Buddhists would say desire is the root of suffering
They are of those who insist the ego is merely clothing and cell phone and credit cards to be left on the edge of the pool of consciousness
Why then all these Nigerian scams pushing everyone's head under water
First round up the shrieking fairies of the Ministry of Truth in all its letters ABC-PhD
Load them onto planes, trains and automobiles to be imbedded the hell out of here
Leaving the marching boots and the barking Sunstein, we take a narrowing path
On the mesa the murmuring figures 'round the fire
Voices like brookwater
Schema in the smoke
and spark
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