There’s nothing in the world more Dangerous than an intellectual or academic with an idea. Doubly so when they manage to secure financial backing.
There’s very much a reason why historically access to information and what was published, copied, and distributed to the general public was tightly controlled by Governments and Religions. Beyond any overt Tyrannical desire to exercise control over a populace.
Academics and Intellectuals have plunged the world into chaos and war with their ideas as often as various leaders desire for Conquest, Resources, and Imperial Dominion have. If not more so.
It’s no particular coincidence that Governments, Kingdoms, Religions, and Empires that stood for hundreds of years.
Declined and Toppled one after another throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries after the advent of the printing press. It became radically easier for the ideas of Academics and Intellectuals. Both Good and Bad to spread rapidly.
There’s nothing in the world more Dangerous than an intellectual or academic with an idea. Doubly so when they manage to secure financial backing.
There’s very much a reason why historically access to information and what was published, copied, and distributed to the general public was tightly controlled by Governments and Religions. Beyond any overt Tyrannical desire to exercise control over a populace.
Academics and Intellectuals have plunged the world into chaos and war with their ideas as often as various leaders desire for Conquest, Resources, and Imperial Dominion have. If not more so.
It’s no particular coincidence that Governments, Kingdoms, Religions, and Empires that stood for hundreds of years.
Declined and Toppled one after another throughout the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries after the advent of the printing press. It became radically easier for the ideas of Academics and Intellectuals. Both Good and Bad to spread rapidly.
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