Idea consumers don't care enough about what intellectuals say to monitor rigorously the quality of what gets said, and intellectuals, knowing that they can get away with anything, lazily spout whatever comes into their heads.
The consciously hip tone -- knowing, intellectual, slightly self-mocking -- reflects some of the mood of Scarsdale High School in 1969.
At the event horizon there would be "no drama," in the lexicon — at least in the physical sense, as opposed to the intellectual trauma of knowing you were not ever going home.
But the scientist who did so would have the intellectual satisfaction of knowing that the result was truly and unarguably artificial.Of course, there is more inside a living creature than just its genes.
The chemistry between the two performers – now both hugely respected solo stand-ups – is one of the highlights of the show, with Lee and Herring balancing arch, intellectual cool and knowing schoolboy humour.
This crime was punishable by up to two years' imprisonment, but the judge, taking into account Turing's intellectual distinction (though knowing nothing of his activities during the war), sentenced him to probation, on the condition that he "submit for treatment by a duly qualified medical practitioner".
Do SNS and related technologies help us to cultivate the broader intellectual virtue of knowing what it is to live well, and how to best pursue it?
But like those artists, he also revels in painting as an end in itself; so he and we get to have it both ways: we can be both knowing intellectuals and paint-loving hedonists.
