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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
by 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 agoI 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 agoExactly. 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).