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> I blame organized religion You have no idea how accurate and profound your statement is. The mid 1800s religious extremism still survives in the US and plagu
by unity1001 4y ago
> I blame organized religion
You have no idea how accurate and profound your statement is. The mid 1800s religious extremism still survives in the US and plagues its public discourse and institutions in the form of anti-intellectualism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#United_St...
The American anti-intellectualism is far stronger compared to all the forms of anti-intellectualism across the world, and its surprisingly wide-reaching - a lot of the anti-intellectual behaviors of the religious American crowd of 1850s survive today and manifest themselves in different forms. From opposing science to conservatism in silly things like the resistance to the metric system and more.
- gregw2 4y agoFrench intellectuals want us to divide by the number of fingers we have, because man is the measure of all things. They’re also in league with mathematicians and some foreign Arabian number system. English engineers much prefer a 12-based system where you can design, construct and build easily— dividing measurements by 2, 3, and 4– where practicality is foremost. I do think French atheism is at the root of it yes. P.S. completely trolling/kidding! P.P.S. Long before the metric system, the French were calling a dozen dozen “grosse”. The prejudice goes long back and it isn’t from us Angle-ophones!
- unity1001 4y ago> the French were calling a dozen dozen “grosse”. The prejudice goes long back and it isn’t from us Angle-ophones! Hell yeah it is - the never-ending English, later British propaganda against France goes back 600 years. Against Spain, it goes back 500 years. A lot of that seems to have been carried over to its former colonies.
- AnnikaL 4y agoThose dang mathematicians with their factoring.