"Believe me, you color-happy people, in cultures where every blockhead has individuality, individuality becomes a thing for blockheads." - Karl Kraus as quoted by Jonathan Franzen in what's wrong with the modern world
...the calculated difficulty of his [Kraus] writing wasn't a barricade against the barbarians. It was aimed, instead, at bright and well-educated cultural authorities who embraced a phony kind of individuality – people Kraus believed ought to have known better.italics are mine - vs
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see also No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. © Samuel Johnson
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