On Raymond Williams:
The anti-intellectualism of the vox populi in America in the
beginning was simply the slowness which the undereducated could learn to
measure up to the demands of universal suffrage. But the proliferation of
massive mediums in the twentieth century complicated the appropriate education
of the underclasses.
When the MLA decided to ignore the new complexities of mass
education (the spinoff of the NCTE before the Depression) marks the defection
of the humanistic elite from the Jeffersonian allegation that a democracy could
be no better than its public schools.
My indictment of the alienated humanist stems from my
perception of my peers as they deployed their careers as near the Ivy ideal as
possible. Williams and Hoggart confirmed my perception.
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