Anti-intellectualism is on the rise.

[The Intergalactic Koala]

If this dude don't shut his B Movie 80s looking ass up:



The gawd been spoke on such things

Even the gawd before the gawd spoke on it:



Viral babble

 

[Nkrumah Was Right]

Didn’t Madison and other American “Founding Fathers” take this into account when devising your constitution?

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

On the rise?!?!?........

I'm saying . Like this was the testament of time. Hell, there was a moment in history where folks who were intelligent would get exiled or even killed. (ala black folks ). shyt there are folks that did not believe that man landed on the moon.

Even when the internet was a smart man's service, there were some dumb asses roaming in forums.

Look at some of the topics on The Coli where folks show their complete IQ of a "144" .

I'm not the sharpest twig on the branch, but knowledge is essential to life. Its getting to the point where libraries and museums were on the chopping block. Hell, Trump's thumb in the ass having self was threatening to shut down Public Broadcasting.


I remember writing about the "War on Education" in a previous forum a while back, and got greeted by crickets.

I'm more afraid of a future of no knowledge, than a future with no finances . Knowledge is wealth itself that's being overlooked for material gold and destructive attention.

 

[KamikazePilot]

The problem is that Academia and the so called “intellectuals” have become so arrogant and they have an attitude that whatever they say is right and you’re wrong even if their evidence is just based on anecdotal evidence and “Feeling”.

Academia has become anti-intellectual they question nothing and if you have a thought outside of mainstream thought than people get ridiculed and told off which in turn leads those people into resentment.

Which is why we have a massive wave of Ant-intellectualism country wide where you can’t have critical thought outside the mainstream bubble.

Another reason is that our schools and colleges aren’t for learning, public school is just Daycare and conditioning for the 9-5 and College is a business, if you want to have higher education it comes with 100,000 in loans.

Teachers get paid like shyt and kids are not supposed to be in environments where they have to sit still all day and are basically in a prison so they act out and teachers have to deal with the brunt of it so they become exhausted and stop giving a fukk about actually teaching.

There’s actually so much more but this post long as fukk as it is. It all leads back to the decay of American society.

 

[Amo Husserl]

If it doesn't come with a punchline and a smile...

 

[Diyhai]

Irony is nothing posted on tiktok should be viewed as "intellectual"

hate when people say this dumb shyt
its what you are choosing to view
your feed reflects your interests
if you were into history, astronomy, finance, art, philosophy
those subjects are all on tiktok
but you are liking twerk videos and childish pranks
so thats what your feed is

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It was on the rise when trump was elected…we been way past that since Covid hit

"I love the uneducated"

And the crowd cheered wildly. It was at that moment I knew we were fukkED. It became cool to be dumb and proud. So of course come the next biggest test for humanity COVID. There was mass of Darwin award recipients cuz wtf does science know anyway?

Just give me my horse pills for the 5g radiation bat flu Chyna virus and let me be on my way with some anti Christ trojan boosters... Deep state big pharma and demonic entities be damned.

What a time to be alive

 

[BlackJesus]

I see anti intellectualism on thecoli daily. Between all the groups of weirdos here it’s enough to make your head spin

 

[Roid Jones]

I see anti intellectualism on thecoli daily. Between all the groups of weirdos here it’s enough to make your head spin

They revel in the ignorance too

 

[BrothaZay]

they say the average IQ in America is like 92. That’s like only 12 points above mentally retarded.

 

[JasoRockStar]

that recent anti-vaxxer thread is a prime example

That thread was just sad.

 

[Who Not How]

If you are actually intelligent, you should have no issues being successful in modern society.

 

[O.Red]

The problem is that Academia and the so called “intellectuals” have become so arrogant and they have an attitude that whatever they say is right and you’re wrong even if their evidence is just based on anecdotal evidence and “Feeling”.

Academia has become anti-intellectual they question nothing and if you have a thought outside of mainstream thought than people get ridiculed and told off which in turn leads those people into resentment.

Which is why we have a massive wave of Ant-intellectualism country wide where you can’t have critical thought outside the mainstream bubble.

Another reason is that our schools and colleges aren’t for learning, public school is just Daycare and conditioning for the 9-5 and College is a business, if you want to have higher education it comes with 100,000 in loans.

Teachers get paid like shyt and kids are not supposed to be in environments where they have to sit still all day and are basically in a prison so they act out and teachers have to deal with the brunt of it so they become exhausted and stop giving a fukk about actually teaching.

There’s actually so much more but this post long as fukk as it is. It all leads back to the decay of American society.

Bolded is literally the reason I hate "intellectuals" and academia

These people don't build or create anything and get off on having masturbatory debates on rhetoric and feel like you should worship the ground they walk on for being educated

They're the most ambiguously accomplished cases of lab coat fallacy and lack the self awareness to see how insufferable they come off to normal human beings

 

[Vandelay]

People have lost faith in institutions. We can't possibly know everything, so we previously placed faith in these institutions that did the investigation and science for us. But because a lot of the individuals in these institutions allowed them to become corrupt, people begin to circle back to only what they know, see, and believe. It's not right, but it's understandable.

 

[Rekkapryde]