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> During the age of a global pandemic, political chaos, and rampant anti-intellectualism Not related to the rest of the article, but it seems hard to claim ram
by zepto 5y ago
> During the age of a global pandemic, political chaos, and rampant anti-intellectualism
Not related to the rest of the article, but it seems hard to claim rampant anti-intellectualism as a feature of the time. Things like critical race theory, but also imagined cultural change through things like crypto seem highly intellectual to me.
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- bryanrasmussen 5y agoI suppose in periods of anti-intellectualism there must still be pockets of intellectualism bucking the trends of the majority culture.
- dash2 5y agoToday's anti-intellectualism doesn't mean that not many people are intellectual, but that intellectualism is controversial. For example, critical race theory would have rested an obscure part of the social sciences, but when it went mainstream, it elicited an angry response. Like other institutions, academia and the avant-garde are less trusted than they used to be.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoI suspect that the apparent rise of anti-intellectualism is a mirage of social media. The US has always had a large streak of it. It's just a lot more visible now.
- zepto 5y ago> Like other institutions, academia and the avant-garde are less trusted than they used to be. Is that ‘anti-intellectual’ or simply legitimate distrust?
- nautilius 5y agoHow would you call it then, when people rather follow the advice of their Reality-TV-Star-President and drink bleach against COVID, but absolutely condemn advice by Fauci, CDC, etc, i.e. people who’ve been studying it* for decades? *Not COVID obviously, but desease management.
- zepto 5y ago> drink bleach against COVID How many people do you think actually did this?