Anti-intellectualism is a predictable and comprehensible reaction to bureaucratic elitism and the removal of power from the masses to be wielded by technocrats.
If you want to deal with anti-intellectualism, you also have to deal with the intellectuals who create the public discourse that make it so easy to be anti-them.
Mao I think has a line "no investigation, no right to speak", which sounds nice in practice (not even that really), but dropping that line on someone is a surefire way to get someone who has not investigated to start speaking even louder.
If you want to deal with anti-intellectualism, you also have to deal with the intellectuals who create the public discourse that make it so easy to be anti-them.
Anti-intellectualism is a predictable and comprehensible reaction to bureaucratic elitism and the removal of power from the masses to be wielded by technocrats.
If you want to deal with anti-intellectualism, you also have to deal with the intellectuals who create the public discourse that make it so easy to be anti-them.
Mao I think has a line "no investigation, no right to speak", which sounds nice in practice (not even that really), but dropping that line on someone is a surefire way to get someone who has not investigated to start speaking even louder.
Mark Fisher innocence project