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Article: Advocacy, Intellect, and Common Sense by Jim Miles
- Article from:
- Al Bawaba
- Article date:
- December 12, 2007
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Ramzy Baroud's current article [1] on the despair of writers and
the role of the intellectual in presenting information has proven to
be very thought provoking personally. I would not be doing what I
am doing now without his support and conviction, yet as with the
writer in the article, I have often wondered why do I keep doing
this when nothing seems to change. Further, am I preaching only to
the converted, or is there perhaps someone out there who has read
the material and actually transformed their thinking because of
that?
Ramzy takes support from Noam Chomsky, who said, "Intellectuals
are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze
actions according to their causes ...