"An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a marriage, or even do a quadratic equation, yet they believe they know how to rule the world. The university, in which it is possible to combine theoretical pretension with comprehensive ineptitude, has become the natural habitat of the ideological enthusiast. A kind of adventure playground, carefully insulated from reality in order to prevent absent-minded professors from bumping into things as they explore transcendental realms, has become the institutional base for civilizational self-hatred."
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Kenneth Minogue in National Review, November 18, 1991, cited in: fortnightlyreview.co.uk, 2013/07
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Kenneth Minogue
Kenneth Minogue (September 11, 1930 – June 28, 2013) was an Australian author and political theorist.
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