Where Intellectuals Work

Belonging to the intellectual class is in no way related to one’s place of employment. It is completely unimportant whether one works at a university or at a used car dealership. I’ve known crowds of anti-intellectual stupid professors and incredibly intellectual, brilliant people in sales. These are folks who think, generate opinions of their own, and don’t just speak, think, and perceive reality in stupid cliches.

Here is, for instance, a brilliant article on why parroting the idiotic cliche ‘Support the troops” is a very stupid thing to do. Who could have thought Salon could publish anything valuable? This way we will end up seeing Huffington Post, the NYTimes and Jezebel publish articles that are not entirely stupid.

It is very easy to categorize people according to meaningless formal categories such as income or place of employment but such classifications are of absolutely no value.