Thursday, April 2, 2009

Obama’s intellect surpasses Bush’s easily, which could be a reason to be worried

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Just what we didn’t want; an intellectual Prez!

At least since Adlai Stevenson’s campaigns for presidency in the 1950s, it’s been a disadvantage in US politics to seem too learned. Social critic William Burroughs once bluntly declared that “intellectuals are deviants in US” (After one of Adlai’s high-brow speeches, an admirer yelled out, “You’ll have the vote of every thinking American!” Stevenson is said to have shouted back: That’s not enough. I need a majority!)

Yet times may be changing. How else do we explain the election of an Ivy League-educated law professor who has favourite philosophers and poets? Granted, Obama may have been protected from accusations of excessive intelligence by his race. That distracted everyone, and as a black man, he didn’t fit the stereotype of a pointy-head ivory tower elitist.

An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity. Intellectuals read classics, even when no one is looking, because they appreciate lessons of Sophocles and Shakespeare that the world abounds in uncertainties and contradictions, and – President Bush, lend me your ears – that leaders self-destruct when they become too rigid and too intoxicated with the fumes of moral clarity.

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