Foucault, telling me what I'm doing.
"The work of an intellectual is not to mold the political will of others; it is, through the analyses he performs in his fields of specializatoin, to reinterrogate what is evident and taken for granted, to unsettle habits, ways of doing and of thinking, to dissipate the familiar, to reassess rules and institutions and, through this reproblematization (in which he performs his specific craft as intellectual), to participate in the formation of a political will (in which he can play his role as citizen)" - Foucault