An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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