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Why "Censorship Intellectuals" Serve the Status Quo

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Why "Censorship Intellectuals" Serve the Status Quo

Johannes Mathijs Koenraadt
May 25, 2023
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Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus: The FBI's files on Camus and Sartre confirm  the meaninglessness of it all.

It has been noted, most famously, by Paul Johnson, author of his book The Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, that intellectuals serve the status quo. As if it were their mental flaw, they show great deference to people in power. Instead of using their minds for thinking, they rent their brains out to the highest bidder, as human…

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