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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s a lack of trust in academic or professional authorities and substituting that trust for either ones own experiences or complete hallucinations.

    Often, it’s trust in cult of personality figures that are saying what the alienated person already wants to believe. up-yours-woke-moralists

    • Poogona [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If I was in college still there’s a part of me that would have wanted to make it my life’s work to reach the same level of “legitimacy” as PeePee Jordanson so that I could spend all my time sabotaging his reputation as publicly as possible

    • trailing9
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      1 year ago

      How do you distinguish between those two, especially if you are not intellectual.