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There's been a streak of anti-intellectualism in the US since the first European colonists. Richard Hofstadter's Anti-intellectualism in American Life covers it
by cratermoon 1y ago
There's been a streak of anti-intellectualism in the US since the first European colonists. Richard Hofstadter's Anti-intellectualism in American Life covers it pretty well. Wikipedia has a nice quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#17th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#17th_cent...
- guappa 1y agoUSA invented the flat earth theory! Nobody since several thousands of years had that conviction. Greeks and Romans knew it was a globe, and everyone who could pick up a book and read it since then knew it as well. The first earth is flat book was written in USA about 200 years ago.