Mobility into intellectual roles severs a person’s organic link to their class of origin

Evidence

Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821 (#expands, via linked claim)

Simmel’s extraordinary originality may well be connected with his position as a relatively isolated thinker. He was, indeed, a “stranger” in the academy. The stylistic manifestations of a marginal position are striking in his written work. Neither in Simmel’s text nor in annotations does one find acknowledgment of scholarly predecessors or contemporaries. He speaks for himself, along with the immortal dead. What is more, Simmel deliberately shied away from recruiting disciples to carry on his kinds of inquiry. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see; Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10; Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821 (+2 more)

Related

• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position (similarity 0.89)
• Intellectual desertion causes cultural sterility until the people breed new intellectuals (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society. (similarity 0.84)
• Intellectuals’ self-perception as paternalistic versus organic determines whether masses enter the state (similarity 0.83)
• Resisting the middle-class death of closed society makes one a revolutionary (similarity 0.81)
• One’s class origins enable unique insight while also limiting what the mind can see (similarity 0.79)
• The middle class is open at both boundaries while nobility is closed at both (similarity 0.79)
• A constructed ideal intellectual combines Third World origin with metropolitan location (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821
• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position #qualifies (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10