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Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 year ago by ThePenitentOne@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.

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[–] Chunk@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately I don't think this is mostly religion. A lot of people are stupid. Sincere question, when was the last time you talked to a normie?

I chatted with my hairdresser yesterday. She didn't know:

what a DMZ is.
who SBF or Elizabeth Holmes are.
that there is an anti trust case against Google.
the word "query" as in "search query".

For Halloween my girlfriend and I are going as SBF and Elizabeth Holmes. She commented that "no one outside [my] little circle is going to know who those people are." I started to disagree but, in a way, she's right.

Don't get me wrong, she's wonderful and hilarious and chill af. She's just a bit dumb. And that's okay but it's true.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

None of those as exemples of inteligence they are exemples of ignorance, lack of information, that can happen either by lacking access to or not caring about.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have a background in networking.

I know what a DMZ is.

I have no idea what these 2 are.

Yes, I heard about it at some point.

I would have thought a fair few number of people knew that. Maybe it's just your barber who doesn't care enough.

Not being able to give correct answers to these questions (one of them being fairly technical) doesn't indicate anything about her intellect though