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RE: The TWO types of INTELLECTUALS - Academia DEFINED
We are born - and we die. Some people have integrity - some don't. I think the film, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" best sums up what you wrote, above. It's possible to step between the cracks without getting hurt. People in power exercise that power for their agenda. When their agenda offends most of the people most of the time, then most of the people will jeopardise their daily bread and finally do something because not to act means their daily bread is going to be jeopardised nearly all of the time, or they're not going to be able to eat it with honey.
Very true and it is an unfortunate existence. If you are an outlier you can easily find the verification, from education to the private and even social as so much of our collective society depends on group-think and social cohesion. Social animals and all.....the critical thinker or dissident has always been historically existing on the fringes of society, irrespective of culture or location. As a species we are a sorry lot in many respects. Read Le Bon's The Crowd which was several centuries old and yet it still hold true to this day.