Posted on 12/09/2019 4:42:45 PM PST by EdnaMode
Eh, I’d argue that philosophers are even more of a scourge of society than actors/clowns/entertainers combined. At least until recently, their role was just to entertain people, which is relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things, not to mention are generally powerless even today (Brooke Anne Smith, an aspiring actress, indicated that with the rare exception of an ad-lib, actors are required to follow the directions of the writer and director when I contacted her about one of her characters) while philosophers generally end up having and abusing a LOT of power. To name some examples off the top of my head, there’s Sartre, Foucault, Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Nietzsche, Marx, Spinoza, Gramsci, and the like. They constantly do make believe for free, and specifically to CAUSE a riot, many times not actually believing their own claims and knowing they are false yet still push these claims anyway.
But yeah, what Rey said about Trump was indeed asinine.
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