I knew it you’re a cryptotrumpie
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Replying to @bhudgeons @vgr
If we “need” intellectualism in culture, it is because we expect it to deliver some benefit to the goal of culture. And you can’t measure that benefit until you define the goal.
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Replying to @vgr
The goal of “culture” is either intellectualism, in which case your question is tautological, or it is farting around, and intellectualism is an excellent way of doing so.
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Replying to @vgr
What stuff exactly? Facts? That’d be science & math, of course....
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Replying to @bhudgeons
Dunno... legal systems, medical administration practices, investigative journalism,... lots of things seem to require intellectual culture, aren’t STEM, and aren’t “farting around” (which is quite a small minority... people like me)
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Replying to @vgr
99.99% of all of those disciplines operate with no trace of “intellectualism” of the sort for which there are “anti-intellectuals.” And they would be fine without the other 0.01%.
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Replying to @bhudgeons @vgr
We like the 0.01% because it is the fun part.
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I see several strains of anti-intellectualism around. Anti-science is one. Tech Luddism is another. Deep state conspiracy theories is a third. ‘Fake news’ is another (as in knee-jerk suspicions of) Anti-pc isn’t anti-intellectual though. That’s just outgroup hatred.
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Replying to @vgr @bhudgeons
I don’t actually see much anti-intellectualism targeting (for eg) philosophy or opera or literary culture. Critiques of that sort of thing come from opposed intellectuals. Like conservatives against Pomo. That’s I vs I, not AI vs I.
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Your examples aren’t clearly anti-intellectual. Nobody (well, I’m sure they’re out there) is anti-science. They believe a different set of people who also call themselves “scientists.”
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