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Johnston: Less prestige for more success

Tilting at Windmills
Published Friday, November 21, 2008

The ideologue is unwilling to reconsider his fundamental premises when they no longer explain his experience. The ideologue is therefore directly opposed to the philosopher, whose articulation is a response to the experience of inadequacy. The ideologue holds the spirit of philosophy at bay by refusing to acknowledge any experience of inadequacy.

Every community resembles the ideologue in that it educates its members into holding a multitude of prejudices, the maintenance of which it will not easily abandon. The community is not wrong to do so — social order would be a fiction...

#1 By Bert 10:34a.m. on November 21, 2008

Yep. Nailed it. Harvard sucks.

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