… [Carey] describes in detail his non-bookish activities — beekeeping, gardening, eating. He sticks up for "ordinary life" against its enemies, as he has before. The Intellectuals and the Masses suggested that if you wanted to find the very model of a modernist-era intellectual — with his rigorously highbrow tastes, his contempt for materialistic values, his quasi-religious veneration of the artist, his fear of mass culture — you could scarcely do better than Adolf Hitler.Touché.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Worldly wise …
… The Intellectual of The Masses | Standpoint. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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The rigorously highbrow tastes that favored (national) socialist realism in painting, and the fear of mass culture that led to the Nuremberg rallies?
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