We have a thriving intellectual culture in this country. But what distinguishes us from the rest of Europe - and is in fact highly unusual - is that it's scarcely represented in the media.
As a result, the *public* intellectual is an endangered species in the UK. We have a prevailing media culture of extreme anti-intellectualism. Intellectuals are derided as a pointy-headed elite. Elsewhere in Europe, they are cherished.
It's one of the reasons why so many of the heated debates here are vacuous and irrelevant. Huge, crucial issues go undebated, while we beat out each other's brains over trivia.
Which group is granted more featured interviews than any other in the UK media?
Actors.
ie those who adopt other people's personas and speak other people's words.
Yet theirs are the opinions the media seek.
It's just as Guy Debord predicted in The Society of the Spectacle.
Actors.
ie those who adopt other people's personas and speak other people's words.
Yet theirs are the opinions the media seek.
It's just as Guy Debord predicted in The Society of the Spectacle.
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