Why is anti-intellectualism so rampant?

_John_

It's not "being a nerd", it's not being ignorant...

Some_Watery_Tart

Sounds like something a nerd would say.

_John_

Sounds like something a nerd would say.

Exactly my point...

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_John_

I know that chicks dig nerds.

As long as they look rich in their leased beemers

Cliffslosinit

I'll get back to you....

usmcmp

<--- sapiosexual

laynerich15

HalfwayGone

AN* attention *kitten*...

laynerich15

AN* attention *kitten*...

Lol I didn't write the meme

HalfwayGone

I know, I was just correcting it

_Stardust_

I know that chicks dig nerds.

As long as they look rich in their leased beemers

Nerds rule the world now. Tesla is way more my Nerd style.

Anti-intellectualism serves capitalism, keeps us living in fear, keeps the little man from figuring out he's just living in indentured servitude. There, I said it. *waits for hate mail*

k8blujay2

Because having to think is sooooo hard!!! It makes peoples head hurt... and sometimes even explode.

TadaGanIarracht

Because we've lowered the standards.

MiloBloom83

<--- sapiosexual

No idea what this is, but IN!

occupysmithmachine

The standards never were very high, but now everyone is published.

TadaGanIarracht

A sapiosexual is someone sexually attracted to intelligence. I am one myself.

jacques57

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Anti-intellectualism serves capitalism, keeps us living in fear, keeps the little man from figuring out he's just living in indentured servitude. There, I said it. *waits for hate mail*
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This is not hate mail. You have a good point. Let's do some research and see if it is true. NNAAAAHHH! You're a moron.

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BusyRaeNOTBusty

I thought it was cool to be a nerd these days...

Saucy_lil_Minx

Anti-intellectualism serves capitalism, keeps us living in fear, keeps the little man from figuring out he's just living in indentured servitude. There, I said it. *waits for hate mail*

^I've read this somewhere before...

I refer to anything Multiverse tells me! He's better than Goggle, and prettier than Wiki

TheNoLeafClover

Bownzi

intellectualism is feared because most normal people do not think very deep because they are bombarded by so many probblems in the world.... and so therories and ideas cannot completely be expressed in a completed process... Kind of like getting an idea and forgetting half of it when attempting to explain it to some one who only appears to be interested..

trojan_bb

I know that chicks dig nerds.

As long as they look rich in their leased beemers

Nerds rule the world now. Tesla is way more my Nerd style.

Anti-intellectualism serves capitalism, keeps us living in fear, keeps the little man from figuring out he's just living in indentured servitude. There, I said it. *waits for hate mail*

Anti intellectualism does not serve capitalism. Anti intellectualism is the death of free markets. It fuels populism, often the antithesis to capitalism.


edit: so many isms. gross

Bernadette60614

I think everyone is smart.

However, intellect doesn't always win a debate...because debates also factor in emotions.

"Pure smart" works when writing code, it doesn't work when selling customers on the software.

AsaThorsWoman

There are certain groups of people who would benefit from the demise of brilliant people, so they are targeted.

But now that it's 2014 they are not targeted with guns or bombs, they are targeted through media.

futurejedi

:bigsmile: Female nerds are hot

emdeesea

"The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." - Carl Sagan

bennettinfinity

I think, in some cases anyway, that there's resentment of people who achieve... you see threads on MFP all the time about how friends or family of people that have lost substantial weight encourage those people to go back to their old habits or attempt to convince them that they're 'obsessed' with calorie counting etc.

I've always been of a mind that one's success (be it weight loss, attaining an education, getting a promotion, etc.) is a reminder to others that they haven't experienced the same success, and that fosters resentment in some.

In other words: sour grapes... I can feel better about myself if I can denigrate your mental abilities by referring to you as a nerd or a brainiac or minimizing your achievements by saying you were lucky or had all the breaks.

CallMeCupcakeDammit

I know that chicks dig nerds.

As long as they look rich in their leased beemers

Nerds rule the world now. Tesla is way more my Nerd style.

Anti-intellectualism serves capitalism, keeps us living in fear, keeps the little man from figuring out he's just living in indentured servitude. There, I said it. *waits for hate mail*

I love Tesla! \m/

rowlandsw

Because the powers that be like to create tension in society to hide all the crap they can get away with. if one group of citizens is busy looking down on another they're easy to manipulate. Those who run societies love stupid citizens thus you get the modern public school system.