[Angostura]

> Another aspect is that a lot of intellectualism is really activism with "intellectuals" trying to impede other people's lives for the sake of some arrogant moral purpose.

OK, I’ll bite -examples?

[jstanley]

You won't get any because of https://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

[nathan_compton]

This is such a cop out, especially given this is a fairly anonymous space AND pretty friendly to "cancelled" ideas.

[tim333]

A historical example might be communism which impeded a lot of people's lives and was pushed by intellectuals going back to Marx himself.

More recently some people are unenthusiastic about promoting trans stuff and affirmative action.