Intellectuals have created that mindset due to their condescension toward the "common" people. Asimov's quote is an example.
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Is he wrong?
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No. But I believe his type of attitude created that mindset, as I said.
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I think the mindset prompted that observation. The phenomenon is widely studied, and not just in the US
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"studied?" How about living it? You can't understand it unless you lived it.
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I respect personal experience and won't discuss it. I have mine too.
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fair enough. When you look down on someone and they know it, you're gonna get a knee jerk reaction.
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I am not going there
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See Richard Hofstadter's 1964 Pulitzer Prize winning book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-394-70317-0.html …
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this is absolutely apt for so many countries right now
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We don't do too bad here in the UK, sadly .
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Asimov one of my heroes - along with Carl Sagan and Julius Sumner-Miller
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Isaac Asimov was my childhood hero!
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A brilliant Sci Fi writer by the way, but also a brilliant quote.
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Isamov doesn't suggest that it is a "bad" aspect of our political culture, because it isn't.
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that's valid for Australia too.
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so true!
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