(Source: paulywesley, via razui)

¿Quién vive más? ¿Aquél que usa heroína por dos años y muere, o quien vive con rosbef, agua y papas hasta los noventa y cinco? El primero pasa sus veinticuatro meses en la Eternidad. Todos los años del come-rosbef sólo los vive en el tiempo.” - Aldous Huxley,

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— http://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley (via yoquecos)

(via yoquecos)

But precisely whose interests do such revolutionary intellectuals represent?…[A] second answer…says simply that whomever intellectuals represent and however diverse the latter may be, intellectuals also, and always, represent their own interests. More than that: intellectuals always represent the interests of other classes as they see, define and interpret them; and their interpretations are selectively mediated by their own social character and special ambitions as an historically distinct social stratum[…] One consideration needs adding: it is not only that intellectuals can take the standpoint of the social ‘whole,’ by reason of their structural position or special culture; intellectuals often occupy social roles and have had educations that induce them to define themselves as ‘representatives’ of the larger society or nation, or of the historical or native tradition of the group. Teachers and clerks are often educated to define themselves as having a responsibility to their group as a whole. However ‘false’ such a consciousness may be, it is often real in its consequences, inducing some intellectuals to accept responsibility for and obligation to cultural symbols and social structures that unite the group as a whole. It is also in their character as traditional elites, as the ‘wronged’ elites of invaded traditional societies, that they have been trained to take the standpoint of ‘their’ people and to see the society as a whole. Historically effective elites are commonly trained, as well as positioned, to take the standpoint of the totality, even if seeing it only from the top down.

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— Alvin W. Gouldner, “Prologue to a Theory of Revolutionary Intellectuals.”  Telos 26 (Winter 1975-76, pp. 3-36.  My emphases. (via lowendtheory)