With amazing brevity, Dr. Michael Berliner used the inspirational achievement of the recent Mars landing to demonstrate what toxic fools modern intellectuals are. His letter was published on August 9, 2012 in the Los Angeles Times:
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/09/opinion/la-le-0809-thursday-mars-20120809
“The amazingly accurate landing of Curiosity on Mars is yet another confirmation of the lesson preached by many intellectuals for hundreds of years: Knowledge is impossible, reason is impotent, there is no certainty, truth is relative, reality is unknowable, achievement is an illusion, man is doomed, and life is defeat.
“Oh, wait, that's not the lesson of the Mars landing?”





