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Prospect has a list of the 'top 100 public intellectuals'.
I've nothing to say other than this, by WH Auden:
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word "Intellectual" suggests straight away A man who's untrue to his wife
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The blurb says they've been whittled down to this last hundred. Whittling is far too good for them in my opinion.
Melvyn (sorry, Lord) Bragg?! They're having a larf, aren't they?
And what is a "public intellectual" as opposed to a private one? Oh Lordie, we're talking the Telly here.
Well, after 24 hours, I still crease up just reading those names. Nice to see a few token sensible people made the list, though.
Who did you vote for?
I wonder what the loss to the general running of the world would be should those hundred quietly disappear one day? It appears to me to be a list of navel-gazers who like to talk, opine, and speculate a lot but little else. What do these people actually do?Perhaps that is what defines an intellectual?
I'm an engineer, and the chances of an engineer being described as an intellectual is zero. But I'd stick an engineer against any one of those listed when it comes to using one's intellect for something which is actually of some use.
Can't be a very good list -- there are no Pollards on it ;-)
What, not even Eve Pollard? She's always spouting about Posh and Becks or hemline lengths on daytime TV-- isn't that what public intellectuals do these days?
My list:
- Amartya Sen
- Susan Greenfield
- Timothy Garton Ash
- WG Runciman
- Robert Skidelsky
I'm less bothered by the lack of good choices in the list, and more by what kind of punishment is the prize - "dinner with a cabinet minster and the editor of a national newspaper"? The poor sod can't even doze off, because "Prospect will report on the conversation"...
How interesting. First time a Druid has made the top 100 for almost 2000 years.
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