> What we’re seeing isn’t anti-intellectualism, but pro-intellectualism challenge a lying orthodoxy. When you get to this point that there's just this big lyin

> What we’re seeing isn’t anti-intellectualism, but pro-intellectualism challenge a lying orthodoxy. When you get to this point that there's just this big lying orthodoxy instead of complicated interactions, goals, realities, and that orthodox institutions like the NIH, Harvard, FCC, FDA, etc. are all just lying or something you throw the entire house out with the bath water. I see this in people who are inclined to believe conspiracies and those who are religious. There's always some "entity" that's "doing something" and we must "oppose/believe/support" that entity. It's a fear reflex that you're not in control. The list of entities is huge. CIA. "Wall Street" "Hedge Funds" "The Deep State" "Them" "The Other" "Liberals" "Moon landings" "Fauci" "FEMA". This is actually a strain of anti-intellectualism. You're not intellectual or empowered, you're just wrong. I do think people feel more empowered to be informed but we definitely have not developed enough social skepticism and responsibility. This is evident by people watching pundits like Tucker Carlson talk about US bioweapons labs and "believing" that this somehow matters even if it were completely true. You yourself make a clear example of this with your "heart problems" assertion, without the proper context about the risk of catching COVID, long-term health effects caused by COVID, etc. It's dishonesty couched in intellectualism. Let's do a simple exercise. Exactly how many people have died from heart problems caused by the second dose of "certain" vaccines? Meanwhile, the worst case in America is around a million excess deaths have occured due to COVID-19. Don't believe those "liberal" numbers? Ok. 10% of that number. 100k people. Compared to... how many have these so-called heart problems? You are completely failing at understanding risk and cost-benefit analysis. Completely. I have a very negative reaction to your post here because it's cynical and sinister and whether intentionally or not it undermines everything we have with no discernible benefit. The logical conclusion of your comments is something akin to burning down Harvard and the NIH and the SEC and replacing them with nothing and then pretending you are somehow "empowered" and "intellectual". You're not. All you've done is destroyed everything.