[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[Ron Kulp]

Ian:
Agreed. But the point is it's a creative tool on the social level too
... so in itself .... language, symbol manipulation, communication ...
does not help distinguish what is intellectual.

Ron:
Perhaps intellectual is the individual manifestation of culture
Or culture of the individual.

Ron expands:
Soviet communism was anti-intellectual
It subdued the cultural expression of the individual.
It jailed the artists and the scientists.
'it viewed individual expression as a threat to social
Order.
The true beauty of Democracy is the freedom of individual
Cultural expression.