On "elitist"
As an easy epithet, "elitist" is as mindlessly abused by middlebrows as "Liberal" is by lowbrows.
Labels: thought
Leisure is essential to civilization, and in former times leisure for the few was only rendered possible by the labors of the many. But their labors were valuable, not because work is good, but because leisure is good. And with modern technique it would be possible to distribute leisure justly without injury to civilization.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
Thursday, April 20, 2006
