>>14669169do we need even a single intellecual? why? what we need are engineers. intellectuals are created by (1) one to many data transmission through writing and broadcast media. tchaikovsky refused to play the piano for the gramophone because he knew he wasn't special.
(2) capturing resources from people who need justifications, as described by aristophanes in The Clouds
(2a) the quest for fornication, as justified by the intensity of feeling
(2b) pride, in remembering meaningless facts
(2bi) sunk cost fallacy for languishing in government indoctrination day prison for the first decades of your life
(2bii) if your neighbor knows how to grow potatoes, and you know how to use pronouns, you can get your neighbor arrested, and sell his potatoes back to his family in exchange for [censored]