are in opposition to the status quo. They are courageous, angry, and able to speak the truth to power. Benda thus maintains that governments should draw upon these intellectuals “not to lead, but to consolidate the government’s policy, to spew out propaganda against official enemies, euphemisms and, on a larger scale, whole systems […], which could disguise the truth of what was occurring in the name of institutional ‘expedience’ or ‘national honor’’ (Representations 6). In short, for Benda real intellectuals
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin