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Originally Posted by peter12
Yeah, the general fragmentation of opinion from a common standard has caused real harm. The problem is that most elite experts suffer from precisely the same problem.
Intellectuals are supposed to try to see the whole, rather than the parts.
There were some very top minds who endorsed Leave - Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent to name two.
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Not that it isn't important, but I would guess that those two are more opposed to the EU for ideological or philosophical grounds than on social, economic, or political grounds. Mind you I can't find the articles in question that you're referring to.