It's all ego and it makes Bobo!

Intelligence in the art of thinking serves the purpose of the author with a focus on the relentless internal consistency and deployed about.

As a result, a brilliant intellectual and known as such argue about his claims but is in the final position of autism towards other intellectual processes opponents and / or dissenting opinions to his. The dissenting nuance is the hardest because it was raised by a third party which claimed a theoretical discourse in the above. Thus it induces a reinforced decline of the original thinker caught in the torment of the insidious challenge.

In short, the intelligence of the intellectual is a solitary experience. And what stands out in my opinion debatable at the article entitled: "The Dangers of Being Smart"  (Tauriq Moosa on June 13, 2012, 7:21, Big Think) is that the intelligence of thought described therein involves the risk of closing oneself, an acclaimed self-absorption.

For some digression, it reminds me of our contemporary political events that suffer so much from a subservience to economics in the jousts of the parliamentary representatives of French political parties, largely from the liberal and higher intellectual professions (Alternatives Economiques, n°314, juin 2012, «Cumul des mandats: un mal français!», p. 32) are getting poorer every day to make way for the ideological rhetoric of smoking out here and there adorned with insults in a public place, of summonses in all directions for a suspect word on a poster that is equally important, venomous tweets on settlement of accounts by personal disappointment in love or friendship betrayed. The immediacy of digital media portrays this pathetic drama that puts public opinion as a spectator somehow "capacitive" but powerless to be heard other than by punishment vote or abstention. The policy is wallowing in self-indulgence in the most vulgar not wearing a contradiction in research Jonas’ ethics (1903-1993, German philosopher, author of "Principe responsabilité", 1979) which aims to take into account the Action not only the interest of others but also that of future generations. Democracy never survives the plutocracy that paves the way for all the demagogic excesses.

However, as pointed out by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, a philosopher, author of «L’avenir de l’économie», Flammarion, février 2012, the policy has to be a "movement of self-transcendence by which a human collective is beyond itself by projecting itself into the future "(Alternatives Economiques, n°314, juin 2012, «Le politique est devenu le laquais des marchés», p.77). Political power is so only "if it's a sign to beyond the society."

If "the policy of France is not done in the Exchange" to quote the famous phrase of De Gaulle in 1966, it should not be up to an underwear. Neithor "lackeys of the markets" nor slave of a Bobo thought, it is hoped that the political intellectualism finds the way of this self-transcendence in France as elsewhere in the Democratic-oriented countries.

French version of this article here

Anne-Marie Champoussin