Is it academic?

To whom should we turn to help us break our mechanical habits and start to awaken to the possibilities of healthy communities? Academics? Educators? In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche raises questions about those sources of transformation.

I have moved from the house of the scholars and I even banged the door behind me. My soul sat hungry at their table too long; I am not, like them, trained to pursue knowledge as if it were nutcracking. I love freedom and air over the fresh earth; rather would I sleep on ox hides than on their decorums and respectabilities. They watch each other closely and mistrustfully. Inventive in petty cleverness, they wait for those whose knowledge walks on lame feet: Like spiders, they wait. I have always ...

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