INTELLECTUAL BRILLIANCE DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST KOUNABELISM, ON THE CONTRARY! LA BRILLANCE INTELLECTUELLE NE PROTÈGE PAS CONTRE LE KOUNABELISME, AU CONTRAIRE!
English version The Jean Mouketou case is fascinating in that it perfectly illustrates how intellectual brilliance does not protect against ideological blindness or the thirst for power. The most famous example of the problem of pawn intelligence is undoubtedly that of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, who was called: the genius in the service of evil. Martin Heidegger is considered one of the greatest philosophers in history (author of Being and Time). However, in 1933, he joined the Nazi party and became rector of the University of Fribourg. In his rectorate speech, he exalts the mission of the German people and the figure of Hitler. He breaks up with his colleagues and mentors and will never apologize explicitly after the war. He declared that the Nazi Aryans were the only force capable of saving humanity. He didn’t just obey of fear. He used his immense intellectual prestige to give a scholarly and noble basis to a genocidal and barbaric ideology. On the contrary, the Austri...
