One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.

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    I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed literal “anti-intellectualism”, perhaps that’s a thing around you ? People not caring/understanding the value of knowledge, sure, but deliberately opposing it… that sounds terribly dumb. Not sure what anybody would get out of it

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      Have you seen people overrate “common sense”? That’s it.

      Don’t think deeply, go for common sense, disregard the specialists, we can’t understand their areas of study, therefore they are lying.

      Also, avoid studying humanities: history, philosophy, sociology, politics. That will make you poor! Stay technical and mathy, don’t worry about anything else other than making money! Have a life project! Get rich!

      That’s the anti intellectual speech.

      Who benefits from the smart peoples of the world not questioning the status quo, and the building blocks of capitalism?

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        Stay technical and mathy, don’t worry about anything else other than making money! Have a life project! Get rich!

        “But also not if that technical and mathematical knowledge will disagree with what I want.”

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      In the run up to brevity people were literally saying “were tired of listening to experts” who were saying it would be a bad idea.

      Were you not around for the last 4 years when half the country decided all doctors were working together and lying?

      How about our populations response to climate scientists.

      Or the universally agreed on hatred for any college degree that isn’t sufficiently marketable as “worthless”

      The only way I can imagine saying you’ve never seen anti intellectualism is you don’t know what you’re looking for.

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        I don’t think I’ve seen this in France at least.

        Were you not around for the last 4 years when half the country decided all doctors were working together and lying?

        There is absolutely some (growing?) distrust in institutional knowledge, pharmaceutical labs, etc. but it’s far from being as strong as in the US (which is the country I assume you’re referring to?)

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          Anti intellectualism is a cornerstone of right wing politics which is gaining steam in lots of countries in Europe.

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      may I introduce you to the very real concepts of anti-vaccine people and flat-earthers? or the people disregarding health advice during the pandemic because of some global conspiracy to kill people with masks