Excellent article! You raise a lot of thought-provoking points here, especially regarding this conflation of intelligence with virtue. If I may be forgiven the solecism, I would very interested to hear your thoughts on an article I wrote that examines a similar theme... in a most unexpected place ;)
No Hard 'R'! (Also a great Murdoch-Murdoch episode)
The dumbing down of our legal vocabulary is something that I passionately dislike.
Excellent article! You raise a lot of thought-provoking points here, especially regarding this conflation of intelligence with virtue. If I may be forgiven the solecism, I would very interested to hear your thoughts on an article I wrote that examines a similar theme... in a most unexpected place ;)
https://honestlyre.substack.com/p/movie-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy