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> Further, and once again, rural residency does not significantly predict anti-intellectualism So this is a perception thing. The guy living in Times Square wh
by MillironX 2y ago
> Further, and once again, rural residency does not significantly predict anti-intellectualism
So this is a perception thing. The guy living in Times Square who views himself as as a "farmer type" is less likely to be "intellectual." This strikes me as society on-the-whole embracing the idea of the country bumpkin than anything else.
- krapp 2y agoI think it's more of an identity politics thing, and the elephant in the room (pun intended) is the degree to which one political party uses both rural identity and anti-intellectualism as a form of populist virtue signaling, and pushes the narrative of an intractible "cold civil war" brewing between "city dwellers" and "rural folk." In reality of course culture is by and large manufactured by corporations and normalized by social media, such that anti-intellectualism and "rural identity" depend far more on the bubbles of hyperreality one inhabits than one's physical location, wealth or educational level.