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One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.

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[–] writeblankspace@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm fine with people who really just don't know stuff. But they should really listen when you try to explain something to them.

* cough cough * flat earthers?

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's not. We'd still be hitting rocks if we were anti intellectual.

[–] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No.

It’s human nature to want to be the best, the most loved, the top dog. It helps to propagate the species.

If someone is smarter than you, it digs at the very core of that, and becomes a threat.

[–] ThePenitentOne@discuss.online 0 points 1 year ago

I think 'human nature' is far too broad to define in such a way, and making objective statements about it is wrong. In my opinion, the only definite thing you can say is that humans act out of self-interest (as do all living beings), but the motivation derived from it doesn't have to be destructive.

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From what I've heard, this is mostly a US phenomenon.

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[–] OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the claim that the world is anti-intellectual is somewhat biased. I don't know if that's a sampling bias, a cognitive bias, or some other kind of bias. But one way or another, I feel like you're overblowing things.

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is the world anti-intellectual or anti-“know-it-all”-poindexter?

I haven’t noticed anti-intellectualism but the reject of disrespectful and bad-faith discourse.

This is probably inevitable because science has been politicized in America.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago

For most of the US, knowing anything beyond basic math and literacy is "being a Poindexter".

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[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're talking about mostly religion. Not one specific but for all of them to work they have to dumb people down, otherwise why would you follow crazy rules if you can have your faith at home without crazyness?

I believe that in a far future, as humanity gather more and more knowledge keeping religion up will be kind of hard, but until them we will have to go through the "dark ages of christianism" where our lifes will be controled by some old conservarive people. But they will die out.

[–] Chunk@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately I don't think this is mostly religion. A lot of people are stupid. Sincere question, when was the last time you talked to a normie?

I chatted with my hairdresser yesterday. She didn't know:

  • what a DMZ is.
  • who SBF or Elizabeth Holmes are.
  • that there is an anti trust case against Google.
  • the word "query" as in "search query".

For Halloween my girlfriend and I are going as SBF and Elizabeth Holmes. She commented that "no one outside [my] little circle is going to know who those people are." I started to disagree but, in a way, she's right.

Don't get me wrong, she's wonderful and hilarious and chill af. She's just a bit dumb. And that's okay but it's true.

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