Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals is a must read. He documents the deficiencies of men who talked big and lived meanly. Most of the greatest thinkers, writers, novelists and poets were deeply flawed and preoccupied with money and had immoral lives.
Their greed, their lust and promiscuity, their deceit and arrogance, and the despicable way they treated those around them, and especially their wives, mistresses and children while proclaiming selfless love for humanity. The best of them were 1950s bounders.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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