Why "Censorship Intellectuals" Serve the Status Quo

It has been noted, most famously, by Paul Johnson, author of his book The Intellectuals : From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky, that intellectuals serve the status quo. As if it were their mental flaw, they show great deference to people in power. Instead of using their minds for thinking, they rent their brains out to the highest bidder, as human calculators, in order to cook up reasons justifying the elite’s worldview.

According to French philosopher Foucault, writing in his book Les Inte...