<This is hilarious.

The capital error in this article, of course, is identifying these people as "intellectuals," and what they are talking about as "philosophy."

Most of these people have spent their entire academic lives worshipping at the feet of a philosophical system that has destroyed more nations and human beings than any other in our entire history.

For intelligent people to suppress the recognition of this reality--and suppress it they do--requires such a massive warping of mental processes that it is not surprising that many of them sound like computers that have just had half a can of Coke poured into them.

...Sander L. Gilman, a professor of liberal arts and sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, replied instead. "I would make the argument that most criticism — and I would include Noam Chomsky in this — is a poison pill," he said. "I think one must be careful in assuming that intellectuals have some kind of insight.



In fact, if the track record of intellectuals is any indication, not only have intellectuals been wrong almost all of the time, but they have been wrong in corrosive and destructive ways."

Mr. Fish nodded approvingly. "I like what that man said," he said. "I wish to deny the effectiveness of intellectual work. And especially, I always wish to counsel people against the decision to go into the academy because they hope to be effective beyond it."



Guess that pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

The successful academic blatherers, like Chomsky, simply construct their own reality and pull it in after them (the mental "black hole" phenomenon.) They seem to be quite content in there.