#intellectual class

[gregor-samsung]

Kuru Otlar Üstüne [About Dry Grasses] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)

[gregor-samsung]

Kuru Otlar Üstüne [About Dry Grasses] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)

[gregor-samsung]

Kuru Otlar Üstüne [About Dry Grasses] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)

[gregor-samsung]

Kuru Otlar Üstüne [About Dry Grasses] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023)

[theperfectquestion]

The Anglophone intellectual class appears to have gone from 'well-travelled people' to 'complete shut-ins' in very little time.

Sure, being 'well-travelled' comes with exclusionary, ableist connotations and class requirements, but I think we ought to have at least a couple of influential people who affect to have left the house or wandered outside the grounds of their hotel. You could put the biggest voices of our generation under house arrest and there would be no meaningful change to their output.

[indizombie]

In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class, if not the governing class. The intellectual class is the class which can foresee, it is the class which can advise and give the lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life of intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative, and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destiny of a country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest, independent, and disinterested, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means, and the use of means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man, but he can easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity—or it may easily be a gang of crooks, or a body of advocates for a narrow clique from which it draws its support.

'Annihilation of Caste', Dr. B.R. Ambedkar