(October 25, 2017 at 1:42 pm)wallym Wrote:(October 25, 2017 at 1:31 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I don't understand America.
people who want progress, social justice and are intellectuals are the enemy.
So what is in vogue is stupid people, regression and oppression.
That cant be right surely?
They aren't intellectuals, which is why their strategies for pursuing progress and social justice aren't particularly popular or effective.
Hmm isn't there an anti intellectual movement in the US?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wir...wn-america
Quote:There has been a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in America, unlike most other Western countries. Richard Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his book, Anti-Intellectualism In American Life, describes how the vast underlying foundations of anti-elite, anti-reason and anti-science have been infused into America’s political and social fabric. Famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov once said: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
