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I think it's widespread all over the world. Partly because not knowing stuff usually includes not knowing what one doesn't know. Therefore we always feel like k

by erikb 10y ago

I think it's widespread all over the world. Partly because not knowing stuff usually includes not knowing what one doesn't know. Therefore we always feel like knowing everything. That leads to weird collisions between "elite" and "normal people" like me being the most well earning person due to my IT master and job, but some family members wondering at Christmas when I will learn a real job (that allows me to use my hands instead of my brain).

chronicx0 10y ago
What?
m_fayer 10y ago
It's also very simple "sour grapes" thinking. Most people can intuit that knowledge leads to status and privilege, so when they don't have it themselves, their ego suffers when adjacent to those that do have it. So, in a simple act of self esteem preservation, they demean the very idea of knowledge. Given how pervasive our intelligentsia-dominated media has become, low-knowledge people everywhere are now in a constant state of defensive ego-preservation. Presto, wide-spread belligerent anti-intellectualism.
- kbart 10y ago
  "Given how pervasive our intelligentsia-dominated media has become" What?? Where did you find such media? Please share.
  - pdimitar 10y ago
    I think he/she is referring to intellectual snobs more than anything. One has to be intelligent to be a journalist, but not necessarily have high emotional intelligence (as a general observation I often feel you have to have zero EQ to be a journalist...)
    - m_fayer 10y ago
      Exactly. In addition, I am thinking of the many television shows starring educated urban people's educated urban problems, or how often the lower classes, when they are represented at all, are treated with either some condescension (Family Guy, etc.) or are "sensitively" portrayed from a removed anthropological perspective (Friday Night Lights).
pdimitar 10y ago
Off-tangent warning: My girlfriend's family members always were judgemental assholes during family holidays and they were always passive-aggressive of course -- so when she gets angry they always make googly eyes and say "but we said nothing, why are you so angry?". Playing the Virgin Mary. One day she firmly refused to go and proceeded to silence her phone to dodge the bullets from one of her granddads and both grandmas. Took them half a year of shock and they suddenly started being nice and stopped judging based on their (possibly obsolete) models of thinking. Now they even try to TALK with her, to actually LISTEN! All hope is not lost for the world. :D You might want to try the silent treatment. Family members love to judge and I feel they'll die if they don't do it but I think they love the person a bit more and can come around.

by erikb 10y ago

chronicx0 10y ago

What?

m_fayer 10y ago

It's also very simple "sour grapes" thinking. Most people can intuit that knowledge leads to status and privilege, so when they don't have it themselves, their ego suffers when adjacent to those that do have it. So, in a simple act of self esteem preservation, they demean the very idea of knowledge. Given how pervasive our intelligentsia-dominated media has become, low-knowledge people everywhere are now in a constant state of defensive ego-preservation. Presto, wide-spread belligerent anti-intellectualism.

kbart 10y ago
"Given how pervasive our intelligentsia-dominated media has become" What?? Where did you find such media? Please share.
- pdimitar 10y ago
  I think he/she is referring to intellectual snobs more than anything. One has to be intelligent to be a journalist, but not necessarily have high emotional intelligence (as a general observation I often feel you have to have zero EQ to be a journalist...)
  - m_fayer 10y ago
    Exactly. In addition, I am thinking of the many television shows starring educated urban people's educated urban problems, or how often the lower classes, when they are represented at all, are treated with either some condescension (Family Guy, etc.) or are "sensitively" portrayed from a removed anthropological perspective (Friday Night Lights).

pdimitar 10y ago

Off-tangent warning: My girlfriend's family members always were judgemental assholes during family holidays and they were always passive-aggressive of course -- so when she gets angry they always make googly eyes and say "but we said nothing, why are you so angry?". Playing the Virgin Mary. One day she firmly refused to go and proceeded to silence her phone to dodge the bullets from one of her granddads and both grandmas. Took them half a year of shock and they suddenly started being nice and stopped judging based on their (possibly obsolete) models of thinking. Now they even try to TALK with her, to actually LISTEN! All hope is not lost for the world. :D You might want to try the silent treatment. Family members love to judge and I feel they'll die if they don't do it but I think they love the person a bit more and can come around.