The Death of a Public Intellectual

Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by wincy on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:39AM (#38068730)

I think as men we have a deep seated need to have a strong leader we respect. If we went into the woods and made a tribe I’d for sure want Joe Rogan or Elon Musk making the decisions. Joe Rogan gives even the village idiot a fair shake to make their point on his podcast. It’s like watching a wise king preside over court. There’s not some big gay mystery here, it’s hardwired “if we go hunting a mammoth, I want Joe Rogan leading the hunt and presiding over the feast!”.

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Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by pjc50 on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:58AM (#38068928)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170131155837/http://www.nybook...

"I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric."

(if you've never read the whole thing, it's worth it, far beyond the list)

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Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by _whiteCaps_ on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:52AM (#38069465)

I keep hearing this meme repeated lately (most recently by the My Pillow guy), and I guess my brain is wired differently, but oh boy, would I hate that society.

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Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by mrguyorama on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:27PM (#38073599)

"Great person" ideology never works. Nobody is right about most things, and nobody is an expert on more than a few things, it simply isn't feasible.

I don't understand asking non-experts their opinion on basically anything.

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Re:The Death of a Public Intellectual by staticman2 on Monday October 30, 2023 @11:04AM (#38070320)

Really, you can't think of a better conceivable leader than Joe Rogan or Elon Musk, even in a fantasy scenario you've invented?

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