My take on the responsibility of intellectuals is that they should be exposing the government for their wrong doings. Most of these intellectuals, however, take advantage of their power and use it against the people because they do things to benefit themselves. For example the Vietnam war was something that could have been avoided but just to prove a point these people carried along with that terrible war. These intellectuals should be on the peoples favor since they have the power to help us out. The government brainwash these people and turn them on us because they know since they are intellectuals they will know a way to convince us to agree on what they are doing. As a nation we elect candidates to represent us because we think they know what is best for us but what we do not know is that they can and will use this power against us. For example they may say there will be certain things done and changed if you vote for them and so people gain that trust towards them and once they have that power they can easily decide whether they will make a change and listen to the peoples voices OR do what they want to do because regardless of the decision they make they'll have the power that the people can not take from them. They have the responsibility to do what they feel is best for the people and to do something about what the people. Yet there's those people that decide to trust
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