Posted on 01/19/2002 5:31:34 AM PST by Pharmboy
You get the idea.
FYI....
1-Henery Kissinger
2-Daniel Patrick Moynihan
3-George Will
4-Lawrence H. Summers
5-William J. Bennett
6-Robert B. Reich
7-Sidney Blumenthal (gag)
8Arthur R. Miller
9-Salman Rushdie
10-William Safire
11-George Orwell
12-Alan M. Dershowitz (2x gag)
13-Toni Morrison (oy)
14-Antonin Scalia
15-Tom Wolfe
16-Norman Mailer
17-George Bernard Shaw
18-Vaclav havel
19-William Kristol
20-William F. Buckley, Jr.
And nice to have you back.
"Weakly Standards" Bill Kristol?
Gore Vidal, 25; Robert H. Bork, 26.
Barf.
28-Timothy Leary; 29-Thomas L. Friedman (yech); 34- Milton Friedman (awrightttt); 42-Joyce Carol Oates; 44-Ayn Rand; 50-Aldous Huxley; 55-Henry louis Gates Jr.; 58-Susan Sontag; 60-Ezra Pound; 63-Richard Dawkins; 66-Camille Paglia; 82-Marshall McLuhan; 84-Lawrence Tribe; 88-Paul Johnson;91-Naom Chomsky (frankly, I'm surprised the little commie is that low); 96-David Frum; 99-Lani Guinier and 100-George J. Stigler
I hope this exercise was satirical; such a reductionist model is laughable.
What a snapshot of the emaciated state of contemporary intellectual life!
Yes, even the Times seemed surprised by the number of hits for Camus.
But then, I had to read Camus in high school, so it could appear on a number of "reading lists" and the band the Cure wrote a song Killing An Arab that was based on The Stranger. If fan pages on the band mention the source material, that would boost hits.
I wonder how many of Timothy Leary's mentions don't have LSD as the primary reason for using his name.
Toni Morrison proclaimed Bill Clinton as the first "black" president. How many of the hits are the attribute for that claim?
Basically, if you do something outlandish, you will get the web references.
And not to dig at the guy, but how many of Kissenger's web references (and periodicals) are leftists complaining about covert actions they attribute to Henry?
If THAT door were opened, my money's on Elvis!
13th on the Top 100 Intellectuals list? Doesn't Whoopee Goldberg come before her? Quadruple "oy".
There is at least a small representation from several politial viewpoints but the author of the list needed to have more conviction to choose who he(they) thought should be on the list and in the order of importance, not because of "web" or periodical standings.
Leary was an addict who never came to terms with his addiction and used his degree to explain his compulsive use of drugs. He even admitted to using heroin and ketamine (animal tranquilizers). He was looking for a fix and wanted to sample all of it, even drugs that he knew to be self-destructive. He was busted for alchol while at military school.
Tom Wolfe wrote about Ken Kesey's Acid Tests in detail (in his first original book, one that wasn't just a collection of smaller pieces). Wolfe swears to this day that he did not use LSD and says that it would have compromised his objectivity. Leary never saw a conflict.
Was John Lennon an intellectual?
How about a list of "damned intellectuals"?
At least he includes Orwell, who predicted men like him.
Orwell!! At #11...look at the names above him! DISGUSTING!
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