Why does there seem to be a rise in anti-intellectualism? : NoStupidQuestions | Redditors blame everything but the intellectuals.

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It's easy to control people if they're uneducated. The purposeful dumbing down in North America has been going for decades. The US wouldn't let their slaves read and write for a reason. They've been starving public education for years; and there was a big push to reject "brainwashing" from school. They profited off homeschooling. As a result, people don't know how to learn or critically think. When you can't do those things, and you combine propaganda through social media, then you can get away with whatever you want. So uneducated "reject" intellectualism because they are essentially intellectually lazy and operating under belief instead of logic. Just a few thoughts, I have more but my thumbs are tired.

Conspiracy slop.

People on here will never admit it, but Covid has done irreparable damage to the public's trust in elite institutions.

The NIH experts, our big tech overlords and their content moderators on sites like YT/Reddit, the New York Times all actively suppressed information that was pertinent to the origins and spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Much of this information turned out to be true. Now we have a whole generation young kids that are severely developmentally delayed both intellectually and socially as a result of school closures and lack of social interaction. The result?

This populist moment, Trump seeing his numbers improve in virtually every county in the country, etc. The pendulum will eventually swing back, but not for a while.

Oh wow a real answer. Still downmarseyd to the bottom of the thread tho

In the US it comes down to a 60 year war on public education; brought to you by the GOP.

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iStillMissEd buter/toast Just stick your finger in your kitty you coward. 23d ago #7800152

This is not about politics? Yes, it is. This has EVERYTHING to do with politics. Look at America. This country has been cutting funding to schools since at least Bush Jr, arts and music programs being gutted across the country. Not at every school, but at A LOT of schools. Arts and music programs don't JUST teach art and music, they teach critical thinking skills. They teach you to express emotions, to connect to other humans. They are important. But the Christo-fascist crowd don't like your kids questioning things. They don't want kids to question morbid topics, or gender, or religion, or…well, lots of things. "Out of sight, out of mind." But that's not how reality works. You can't wish away poverty, racism, fascism, etc. You just end up with adults who don't know how to process or express their emotions, who are fearful of or simply unwilling to be self-reflective or critical of their own beliefs or the beliefs of their community members.

lmao art and music are two of the most worthless classes in any school. Even the children realize they're worthless but don't complain because they're fun enough (Aside from me who complained loudly and often about how much of a waste of my time it was)

Regardless it's a lie /u/terminalbungus

Federal funding for schools has only increased year over year, it's just being spent very poorly (on things like illegals who don't speak a lick of english but are still in class for some reason)