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This book is pure tripe and only serves to exploit the population's hunger for fake pomposity and need to appear "smart." Bloom's celebration of the "classics" is really just his pathetic fear of knowledge he hasn't memorized. He despises what he fears and he fears what he doesn't understand. His defense of yesterday is his damnation of today and his paranoid little book is a terrible reflexion on the "American Mind."
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The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
Billy the Dik, June 6, 2007
This book is pure tripe and only serves to exploit the population's hunger for fake pomposity and need to appear "smart." Bloom's celebration of the "classics" is really just his pathetic fear of knowledge he hasn't memorized. He despises what he fears and he fears what he doesn't understand. His defense of yesterday is his damnation of today and his paranoid little book is a terrible reflexion on the "American Mind."(2 of 15 readers found this comment helpful)