Something that reminded me of something we have talked about in previous classes in the video is how the author of the book was criticized because other people thought he was criticizing/complaining about intellectuals attacking the authorities. I remember in class we talked about how many intellectuals believe that they should be in positions of authority and that the people who are in those positions are not worthy of it because they feel like they know a lot more and could handle problems better than they can. It just made me wonder how much of a correlation our conversation had in comparison to what he was being criticized about. Also, when the author said that he expected his book to rub a lot of people the wrong way and that the media would not like the book, it made me wonder why? It made me wonder because he wrote the book which somewhat criticizes intellectuals and the intellectual class is much smaller than the non-intellectual class. We have learned that the non-intellectuals tend to look at intellectuals as unapproachable and cocky so why would it rub them the wrong way. This means that the vast majority of the audience up to that point were most likely intellectuals which is where the criticism was coming from. The author also touched on the fact that one of his biggest criticisms of intellectuals is their alienation from society which is another aspect we talked about in class pretty thoroughly as it is a big problem for them since they want to receive more recognition for the work they do however, the problem is that no one really knows who they are because of how distant they are from the rest of society.
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