About Edge Foundation, Inc.

About Edge Foundation, Inc.: "America now is the intellectual seedbed for Europe and Asia. This trend started with the prewar emigration of Albert Einstein and other European scientists and was further fueled by the post- Sputnik boom in scientific education in our universities. The emergence of the third culture introduces new modes of intellectual discourse and reaffirms the preeminence of America in the realm of important ideas. Throughout history, intellectual life has been marked by the fact that only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody else. What we are witnessing is a passing of the torch from one group of thinkers, the traditional literary intellectuals, to a new group, the intellectuals of the emerging third culture.

John Brockman
1991

link: Who are the Third Culture Intellectuals?"

Pete's Points:
What I love about comments like this is the sheer arrogance of people in America.

Given their recent history of taking us to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, (ostensibly about terrorism but cynically about OIL!) and thereby sowing the seeds of another set of religious wars by means of that wonderful slip of the tongue by George Bush when he called his adventure a 'crusade', it is interesting that they can claim that "America now is the intellectual seedbed for Europe and Asia."

But I digress - I defy you to look at the link to the "Who are the Third Culture Intellectuals" Do not be surprised when you get a 404 error! I suspected initially that there are none, which is why the page cannot be found!

Then again I can be nice - so I went and hunted did I not? Thanks to the marvels of the internet you can find a URL that DOES work to bring up this list it is http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/who3c.html

Alas the people who provided the first link forgot to include the directory in which they placed their message.

Intellectuals? Perhaps. Attention to fine detail would seem to indicate a different title "careless"!

Now THAT seems to synchronize with the way in which the USA has been going about its dealings with the rest of the world.