This is really what the property owning class wants- they know they are not that smart and they have always paid other people to be smart for them, but the fact that the time of smart, educated people is expensive has always galled them.

As another commenter said, many of us have viewed our intelligence as a key part of our personhood and how we perceive and interact with the world. But capitalism has found a way to convert that, too, into a purchaseable commodity.

If intelligence is now meaningless and being perceptive is worthless, all that remains is the ugliness of stupid power.

> If intelligence is now meaningless and being perceptive is worthless, all that remains is the ugliness of stupid power.

I don't disagree that there are some truly awful people in power in certain places right now, but this statement is ridiculous. Many intelligent and perceptive people are very cruel or foolish.