ENGL 316 Lecture Notes - Anti-Intellectualism
5 Dec 2012
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Banquet: adam and raphael are engaged in a kind of symposium. Raphael tells adam that he must learn to control his desire for knowledge. Raphael is really not being very direct. He totally could have just said shit outright, and then adam would have fewer questions. Adam doesn"t understand why so many stars circle around the earth. Why is all the power circled around one tiny little spot. He doesn"t understand why one small thing gets to stay still while all the big things run around it. He thinks that the big things must be a lot better than the little ones. Raphael says that the first problem with adam"s assumptions is that he assumes that things that are higher/bigger are better. Satan is the one who has this view: he is the one who thinks that up is good, and down is bad. Raphael says that this might not be true. The whole tone is a very familiar anti-intellectualism.
