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Originally Posted by atari 2600
Why not Michael Moore? I guess you're too afraid of what some turds might think. Or perhaps he just didn't fit your cookie-cutter notion of an ivory tower intellectual like the rest on your list. At any rate, he's scapegoated just like Socrates was in his day and it's better to be a gadfly than a fly.
I've read a lot of Sartre and Camus. Sure, there's some valid stuff to ponder, but they each perverted existentialism quite a bit with atheism and humanism. At least Camus rejected nihilism and Marxism and like Kierkegaard, despises Hegel.
Marcuse is an intellectual rabble-rouser Marxist that perverts Wittgenstein.
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once again atari you assume. because i said michael moore doesn't belong on a list described as intellectual doesn't mean i don't like him, on the contrary i have some of his books and most of his films. michael moore is great infact, i like him alot, however, i donot believe he belongs on a list of intellectuals. his populist films are fantastic for highlighting the problems that people face and the world faces blah blah blah, and bringing these issues to a global audience, more so than any academics really ever achieve. you seem to enjoy making assumptions about people by a once sentence post though, as you did when i first joined the old board, and you usually follow these posts up with some psuedo intellectual banter so people can see how widely read you are. get the chip off your shoulder and don't assume so much. i put my list up of people who i think are important, they are opinions and opinions only.
it is ironic how you say i have a cookie cutter notion of an ivory tower, im not the one with the massive chip on my shoulder and name dropping, ohhh i have read alot of camus and satre and i can name wittgenstein and hegel, so what, people read books good on you for being sooooo widely read, you are a genius and i bow to your intellectual prowess. i will not appologise for having an opinion so shut the fuck up.