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Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
Go back to classical times, say classical Greece. Who drank the hemlock? Was it someone who was conforming, obeying the gods? Or was it someone who was disrupting the youth and questioning the faith and belief? Socrates, in other words. It was Socrates.
Anti-intellectualism ... has been present in some form and degree in most societies; in one it takes the form of the administering of hemlock, in another of town-and-gown riots, in another of censorship and regimentation, in still another of Congressional investigations.
