Are We Really Living in the Age of Silly?

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few people are taken seriously these days, as levity is often valued over sober criticism.

So where are the Lionel Trillings and Dwight MacDonalds of our day? Siegel writes that “the intellectual was replaced by the well-remunerated academic whose seriousness seemed less organic than institutionally derived.” Through this, topics became ghettoized, separated from the public eye. And intellectuals become suspect.

Maybe we all need to grow up a little and read something more like How Proust Can Change Your Life, rather than Your Handwriting Can Change Your Life! Read more at flavorwire.com

 

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