That Intellectuals, Including Academics, Would Become A "new Class" Of Technocrats, Claiming The Name Of Science While Cooperating With The Powerful, Was Predicted By [mikhail] Bakunin In The Early Days Of The Formation Of The Modern Intelligentsia In The 19th Century.

-Noam Chomsky

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That Intellectuals, Including Academics, Would Become A

Noam Chomsky

That Intellectuals, Including Academics, Would Become A "new Class" Of Technocrats, Claiming The Name Of Science While Cooperating With The Powerful, Was Predicted By [mikhail] Bakunin In The Early Days Of The Formation Of The Modern Intelligentsia In The 19th Century.

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...a Very Terrifying Aspect Of Our Society, And Other Societies, Is The Equanimity And The Detachment With Which Sane, Reasonable, Sensible People Can Observe [war And Human Suffering]. I Think That's More Terrifying Than The Occasional Hitler ...or Other That Crop Up - These People Would Not Able To Operate Were It Not For This Apathy And Equanimity - And Therefore I Think That It Is In Some Sense The Sane And Reasonable And Tolerant People Who Should Share A Very Serious Burden Of Guilt, That They Very Easily Throw On The Shoulders Of Others Who Seem More Extreme And More Violent.

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