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>It almost feels like we're feigning collective surprise that a big chunk of Americans decided to take a staunchly anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-rationality
by minikites 5y ago
>It almost feels like we're feigning collective surprise that a big chunk of Americans decided to take a staunchly anti-science, anti-medicine, anti-rationality stance.
This is the natural result of 40+ years of sustained attack on the idea of government, on the effectiveness of public institutions, on the concepts of authority and expertise:
>Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"
- UnpossibleJim 5y agoI'm pro science, pro medicine and vaccinated, but as far as "the sustained attack on the idea of government" and "the concept of authority"; you don't think the fairly obvious and rampant corruption in the government, itself has something to do with that? Political donations have become a "buy your senator" campaign for corporate influence without the need for subtlety or subterfuge, and we've been at a state of declared war for 30 years, with expanded governmental control, with no end in sight. This doesn't seem like an attack on the idea of government, but an attack on the idea of a corrupted governing body.