White Writes About a Very Term Paper

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He felt that this was all "full of defeatism and disillusion and sometimes of a too studied innocence" (White, pp. 481). He criticized intellectuals for not merely taking a side on an issue that White thought affected everyone. He thought that intellectuals would more than anyone, want their opinions to be heard and to be taken into account because it is the educated people in the United States that made a difference. It was them who had the advantage of knowing and having more opportunities than the rest, yet they were the ones that were content with what was occurring. He writes, "Where I expected to find indignation, I found paralysis, or a sort of dim acquiescence" (White pp. 483). He was so appalled by their lack of opinion and this disregard to an issue that affected so many, that it invigorated his own desire and admiration of and for freedom.
His criticism was not of their disbelief in freedom, but the fact that these individuals were not making use of their freedom, "The least a man can do at such a time is to declare himself and tell where he stands" (White pp. 483).

Dictators, White believed, were also just as fake as the intellectuals who declared themselves educated, yet had no real opinion on a matter as important as the one occurring. Everyone has to at one point see themselves as free. Freedom is not just about being a single entity in a world made of up animals, but also a state of thinking, acting, and being in a given society. But he criticized dictators, more specifically Adolf Hitler, for being a hypocrite in his own.....

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