https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/intellectuals-and-capitalism-honeymoon-and-divorce/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/intellectuals-and-capitalism-honeymoon-and-divorce/comment-page-1/#comment-3809 Isegoria Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:22:31 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=6409#comment-3809 So, as the quality of the intellectual class has declined, intellectuals have moved away from the ideas we hold? It has a certain appeal — a dangerous appeal.

]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/intellectuals-and-capitalism-honeymoon-and-divorce/comment-page-1/#comment-3557 David Foster Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:16:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=6409#comment-3557 Perhaps. It also seems likely that as the number of people in the intellectual class has expanded (relative to the size of the population), the average quality of intellectuals has declined. Just as during the dot-com boom, the number of companies in the space meant that there were people with CEO jobs who shouldn’t have been running a lemonade stand.

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