William F. Buckley wrote: "[I'd] rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty."

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fantastic quote.

Unfortunately all I have to offer is an episode of the simpsons where the intelligentsia take over the town for a while

The funniest bit being Comic Book Guy saying there will be forced mating only once a year, "for some, this will be much much less, for me, much much more".

Upmods for a simpson quote ! All you hackers just pretend to be high brow intellectual types. Deep down I know you still like the simple things in life ;)

You know a very large percentage of Simpsons writers went to Harvard, right? ;)

from http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1517.html (via google):

> I myself have spent the past 19 years working for The Simpsons;

> indeed half our writers are Harvard graduates.

You can watch a famous debate between Buckley and Chomsky on YouTube. On the whole, I disagree with Buckley. But I still wonder about this. I'd have faith in the faculty that I have met, but I'm afraid they're mostly physicists.

Glad you liked it. Brooks is sometimes controversial because of his politics (and I hesitated to post it because of that), but I usually find his social commentary refreshing. And I thought this was just an interesting, and very well-written, observation on China's society.