(urth) "Sci-Fi’s Difficult Genius", Peter Bebergal

Mon Apr 27 05:09:29 PDT 2015

Unwashed philistines to mean uncultured people was quite common at one time, or sometimes just used by the upper class to mean working class people.

Rick

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On 4/26/2015 12:56 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Could well be. I might have guessed "Hebrew propaganda" but only out 
> of cynicism, not out of any actual knowledge.

That's a part of it; the David and Goliath metaphor is built into our culture and of course Goliath was champion of the Philistines. IIRC this was also used to mean uncultured readers by a 19thC literary magazine, but I can't locate the reference just now.

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