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Smart people seem particularly prone to intellectual fads (religions in their own way) and being eager to use coercion to implement their ideas. Maybe it’s good
by marcoperaza 8y ago
Smart people seem particularly prone to intellectual fads (religions in their own way) and being eager to use coercion to implement their ideas. Maybe it’s good to have a great mass of down-to-earth, practically-minded folks as a counterbalance. Open ridicule of the hoity-toity elite has been quintessentially American for all our history.
- WalterGR 8y agoWhat do you mean by intellectual fads? I think some examples would help.
- marcoperaza 8y agoPerformance environmentalism (like plastic straw bans) and some of the whackier social justice stuff come to mind.
- WalterGR 8y agoWhat are some examples of whackier social justice stuff? As far as I know, plastic straw bans are to reduce the amount of unrecoverable plastic waste as well as all the resources that went into producing it. And I wrong? I don’t see how it’s an intellectual fad so much as policy that you personally disagree with. Put another way, are these intellectuals who support plastic straw bans (who??) potentially going to 'wake up' and realize one day that they were incorrect, and that in fact plastic straws are not a source of unrecoverable waste?
- mantas 8y agoFor example many anti-vax people have higher education. https://www.seeker.com/anti-vaccination-parents-richer-better-educated-1770662854.html https://www.seeker.com/anti-vaccination-parents-richer-bette... https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-not-who-you-think-she-is/ https://qz.com/355398/the-average-anti-vaxxer-is-probably-no...