this is literally how it feels
The common man need not, through the guide of intellect, necessarily perform philosophy to the same measure as an educated man, this being a wealthy aristocrat who can afford private tutors and studied Greek and Latin with ease, having read those old masters fluently. Non, it is much more ready to say that intellect and philosophy might differ with these accesses which in their magnitude great more rigid and dangerous insight, such as, for instance, the dire importance of hierarchy and civility to convey thought and ideas (@voltaire-official).
The old model feels rather inapt to employ here– in this modern world, anyone in the situation of the poster already in university, has ability to learn what previously was restricted to those with more means; even outside of a university, everyone can elect to study what has been written in the past, grâce à l'Internet. The "common man" is simply he who has chosen not to apply himself. As for the poster, if you are thinking through things longer and speaking more with professors, I'm certain you are more ahead than you think– take advantage of the correspondance with educated men that is afforded to you and don't hesitate to bring them your ideas. Criticism breeds new ideas even more than approval.
If university is such a commonplace in modernity is services him, this supposed mediocre scholar, very little, and he shall through these educational means, find himself the new base citizen, one who, similar to his ancient counterpart, will share in a lack of intellect by those comparative men of value who access greater sources of letters, pamphlets, and experiments: only accessible behind a virtual bill of sale he, this poor man, cannot often afford.
I shall repeat myself in different words, these base men, share insight because they lack these civil misdeeds concocted against them to devoid them of intellect.
They have these many wonderful machines which speak mostly in beautiful lies, designed to deceive idiots and fools alike to believe what is already true to them. This is not criticism in the forum nor is it new ideologies! This is madness preached to honest men who wish to believe these artificial intelligences (tools of the lazy aristocrat) are also human in nature!
Hence I speak of the necessity of applying oneself as an individual– if artifical intelligences, which can speak but the median of everything which is said by the common horde, are beginning to be more widespread, the solution is one must cultivate their education as an individual, and while it is true that some things remain inaccessible, it is to a much lesser extent than ever before in history. I wrote before that, in the course of history, individual genius had become less common, but general enlightenment greater, and three centuries now passed have only given me greater evidence, though I confess to a much lesser extent than I would have hoped. Enlightenment is now available to the majority, the problem is few (though still a greater number than in the past) choose to seek it, trapped as they are in the also greater control of propaganda leading to false complacency.
