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Originally Posted by jewels
I didn't know about this anti-intellectual movement. 'Scuse me while I get out from under my rock.  |
I don't think it's necessarily a movement... it's just something that has been very strong in American culture for a long time (I would say at least the last half of the 20th century). There's an interesting article about it here, though one might say it's biased because it's from an Elite Publication... but hopefully it helps somehow to explain the phenomenon, since I don't think I would do a very good job here:
The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism
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Originally Posted by jewels
Is the average American a total idiot these days, or do we really believe that Joe Blow and hockey moms are great politicians because they're our neighbors and equals?
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Excellent question--and I really think it's one of the cruxes around which this, and the last two, elections have turned.