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Maybe it's partly because of anti-intellectualism, the idea that being very smart is bad. I had never heard about the idea, until recently. It was some article

by xkxx 10y ago

Maybe it's partly because of anti-intellectualism, the idea that being very smart is bad. I had never heard about the idea, until recently. It was some article about American anti-intellectualism and why it is so popular. Reading that article was a very weird experience for me. I believe this concept doesn't exist in the culture of the country where I am from.

OJFord 10y ago
Britain's tired of experts, apparently... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/michael-goves-guide-to-britains-greatest-enemy-the-experts/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/michael-goves-gui... https://www.tiredofexperts.co.uk/ https://www.tiredofexperts.co.uk/
- gaius 10y ago
  Tired of people taking quotes out of context too. What Gove actually said was that the country was tired of self-proclaimed experts who always turned out to be wrong. Which is not an unreasonable thing to assert.
  - to3m 10y ago
    In some defence of the quote: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/michael-gove-was-accidentally-right-about-experts/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/michael-gove-was-accident...
  - OJFord 10y ago
    Really, it was a joke example, but few people actually self-proclaim expertise they don't have - tough even being tired of such people being wrong isn't at odds with the comment I was replying to about anti-intellectualism.
gbog 10y ago
That's a very strange thing for us Europeans. When I meet a new guy I will scan some cultural fields and see if we have some common ground where we can sit the discussion for a while, it could be post-modernist philosophy, classical music, anime, or porn even, but we need to find place to settle. Younger, I did the same with some people from the US and noticed big "!name dropping!" flags. Right, I was name dropping, just to try to find a common topic. I wasn't trying to shower anyone with "intellectualism", though: it is perfectly ok to not have read Proust. (But it would be weird and a no-go to have familiarity of no parts of cultural life except baseball and "football")
- coldtea 10y ago
  >That's a very strange thing for us Europeans. It's even worse in Britain. Anything remotely smart or cultured is considered "pretentious" etc.

by xkxx 10y ago

OJFord 10y ago

Britain's tired of experts, apparently... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/michael-goves-guide-to-britains-greatest-enemy-the-experts/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/michael-goves-gui... https://www.tiredofexperts.co.uk/ https://www.tiredofexperts.co.uk/

gaius 10y ago
Tired of people taking quotes out of context too. What Gove actually said was that the country was tired of self-proclaimed experts who always turned out to be wrong. Which is not an unreasonable thing to assert.
- to3m 10y ago
  In some defence of the quote: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/michael-gove-was-accidentally-right-about-experts/ http://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/michael-gove-was-accident...
- OJFord 10y ago
  Really, it was a joke example, but few people actually self-proclaim expertise they don't have - tough even being tired of such people being wrong isn't at odds with the comment I was replying to about anti-intellectualism.

gbog 10y ago

That's a very strange thing for us Europeans. When I meet a new guy I will scan some cultural fields and see if we have some common ground where we can sit the discussion for a while, it could be post-modernist philosophy, classical music, anime, or porn even, but we need to find place to settle. Younger, I did the same with some people from the US and noticed big "!name dropping!" flags. Right, I was name dropping, just to try to find a common topic. I wasn't trying to shower anyone with "intellectualism", though: it is perfectly ok to not have read Proust. (But it would be weird and a no-go to have familiarity of no parts of cultural life except baseball and "football")

coldtea 10y ago
>That's a very strange thing for us Europeans. It's even worse in Britain. Anything remotely smart or cultured is considered "pretentious" etc.