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In fact, when it comes to everyday real life issues of health, family, happiness, etc, the intellectuals on the whole display no advantages at all.
This is not anti-intellectual - its just that intellectualism has its time and place to be an advantage. Horses for courses...
Wis'd.
That's been more true for the last century than it ever has before, and we've made astonishing progress. As a result, science and knowledge were explicitly trusted and respected by everyone.
Now, however, we're heading backwards. Citation: the whole anti-vaccination movement, just about every conspiracy theory ever, the Trump campaign, the Leave campaign etc etc etc.
Etc.
@Clarky talks sense:
Anti-intellectualism is mental laziness. It's fear of the unknown, and not being willing to investigate what we don't know. It's fear of being wrong. It breeds the "you don't agree with me and therefore you are a useless wanker" type of response which we see on some other forums. It's not a new phenomenon. Until the Scientific Revolution, which began a couple of centuries ago, it pervaded everyone's thinking. It still does in many religions, where to paraphrase "that's not my interpretation of my chosen scripture, and therefore it's wrong ..", and some go on to believe "... and my version of god says that I can kill you for not agreeing with me".
Firstly the cult of belief - I-can-believe-whatever-I-like-and-you-can't-stop-me - heavily influenced by the religious right in the US.
But I think there's also a generational bias - a pensioners' over endowed sense of qualification to be right by virtue of the years spent on the planet even if those years have been spent in self-imposed comfort zone punctuated only by holidays to Greece, Spain or south of France. They're as wise and informed on current events as the Guardian or Telegraph permits and paranoid as a result.
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Thank God for that, I thought I was the only one.
Those kids are detestable but it's that Principal that's the real problem at that college.....someone tells him "fuck you, George" and they are just now investigating whether anyone violated the conduct rules??? Their feet shouldn't have touched the ground.
chatting to my class mates "jeez question 5 was tough.. what did you think?? etc etc"
at the same time as our exam was a CSE exam
kids coming our of their saying "I didn't know none of that"
"yeah.. and I didn't even know the date"
"well I didn't even know my name"
yeah so listening to them was kinda funny at the time..
but in another way.. kinda sad..
being a gobby div and bullying those that give a crap is much easier
Hominidae Homo Sapien Gobby Div