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Today's anti-intellectualism doesn't mean that not many people are intellectual, but that intellectualism is controversial. For example, critical race theory wo
by dash2 5y ago
Today'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?