Intellectuals are enemies of Society....

My friend Kevin at The Smallest Minority has done a very interesting fisking on intellectuals. The posting itself goes into other interesting thoughts but one quote stands out to me.

Eric Hoffer: First of all, I ought to tell you that I have no grievance
against intellectuals. All that I know about them is what I read in history
books and what I've observed in our time. I'm convinced that the intellectuals
as a type, as a group, are more corrupted by power than any other human type.
It's disconcerting to realize that businessmen, generals, soldiers, men of
action are less corrupted by power than intellectuals.

That is a very interesting truism to life.