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Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:02:54 2019 No.13871950 [DELETED]

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Why is there so much distrust for intellectuals in this day and age? Especially in America? If anything we need intellectials more than ever today. Why is everyone an anti-intellectual?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:04:08 2019 No.13871959 >>13871950 Because entitlement. No one wants to accept there should be someone with more authority than them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:04:08 2019 No.13871958 Corporate propaganda. Capitalist elite want to keep the people dumb so they don't see they are being fucked over.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:04:36 2019 No.13871964 Because it has been revealed that way too many of them have had ulterior motives and have abused their positions of power/authority

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:04:37 2019 No.13871963 There are no authentic intellectuals in the public eye these days. We're all gathered here on 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:05:11 2019 No.13871972 File: 23 KB, 478x361, 1428720028888.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13871958 When are the pinko commie fags going to leave?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:05:44 2019 No.13871977 Because so-called “educated” “intellectuals” in America and Britain are largely pushing philistine Marxist cultural revolution bullshit and are actually anti-intellectuals.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:09:40 2019 No.13872007 >>13871958 Right here >>13871977 A case of corporate propaganda

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:10:46 2019 No.13872013 >>13871977 He has a point, y'know. Most modern so-called intellectuals are liberal degenerates.

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:13:55 2019 No.13872034

>>13871950
>Why is there so much distrust for intellectuals in this day and age? Especially in America? If anything we need intellectials more than ever today. Why is everyone an anti-intellectual?
Modern intellectuals are not so great.
What are the good modern intellectuals?

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:28:47 2019 No.13872100

>>13871950
The fact that our education system has turned into a degree mill means that people do not value education, academia, and the people this system produces as highly as they once did.
Diminishing returns in the fields of science also means that there is a lack of innovative creations to restore faith in this fields.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:33:04 2019 No.13872122 >>13872013 >>13871977 Nothing wrong with marxism, liberal values, LGBT, animal activism, whatever, etc. You are just a contrarian loser.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:34:52 2019 No.13872133 >>13872122 Debatable. But that Anon was simply explaining why people don't take them seriously, and I can perfectly understand why now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:36:12 2019 No.13872136 >>13872133 No he wasn't

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:36:47 2019 No.13872144 There isn't, "intellectuals" want to be treated like philosopher-kings but instead they're only being treated like intellectuals.

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:37:09 2019 No.13872147

>>13871950
>Especially in America? If anything we need intellectials more than ever today.
Wrong, everyone is some sort of scientist these days. People see through that bullshit and grow distrustful. Also, they know that each one of them is on someone's payroll so they don't believe their bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:37:21 2019 No.13872149 >>13872136 Pretty sure he was answering the question of the thread. Read again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:40:01 2019 No.13872160 >>13872100 You must be retarded, most people view scientists almost as a priestly caste, they're the ultimate authority on all matters to most people.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:41:14 2019 No.13872167 >>13872160 If that were true, then climate change would not be an actual topic of debate in the united states.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:41:58 2019 No.13872173 >>13872149 I did. All it says is blabla marxism blabla liberal degeneracy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:42:57 2019 No.13872182 >>13872167 the american right are practically the only people in the entire West that don't defer to whatever Harvard tells them is true.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:43:30 2019 No.13872188 It doesn't help modern intellectuals can't argue or debate to save their lives, I was watching a British talk show and a barely educated pundit dismantled a distinguished professor so badly the BBC had to change their rules.

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:44:22 2019 No.13872195

>>13872173
>Q: Why is there so much distrust for intellectuals in this day and age?
>A: Because so-called “educated” “intellectuals” in America and Britain are largely pushing philistine Marxist cultural revolution bullshit and are actually anti-intellectuals.
Crazy, isn't it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:46:04 2019 No.13872203 >>13872188 This has happened multiple times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw6yOOTY08U

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:46:04 2019 No.13872205

>>13872182
well, considering that the american right makes up roughly 50% of the country...
additionally, this lack of respect for education extends to business, having a bachelor's degree (even a BS) is no guarantee of obtaining gainful employment like it once was

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:49:08 2019 No.13872218 >>13872195 "blabla marxism" wow

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:51:55 2019 No.13872231 >>13872218 This is exacty why they're not taken seriously anymore and rightfully so.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:52:46 2019 No.13872236 >>13872231 That is literally what the post says are you brain dead?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:52:54 2019 No.13872238 >>13871950 By "distrust in intellectials" do you mean "ungrateful lumpenproles failing to see the brilliance of my favorite gurus"?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:52:54 2019 No.13872237 The label of intellectual is given out like fucking candy these days. Society really needs to cut the wheat from the chaff

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:54:05 2019 No.13872246 >>13872205 >lack of respect for education >BLACK LIVES MATTER [x100]

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:55:15 2019 No.13872254 File: 467 KB, 400x300, 1454362214318.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13872122

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:56:41 2019 No.13872260 >>13872236 It's a caricature of what it says.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:57:20 2019 No.13872264 >>13871950 Let's look at the great philosophers of this era. The successors of Plato, Epictetus, Plotinus, etc https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/philosophy-jason-stanley/ I wonder why people are skeptical about them

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:57:32 2019 No.13872268 >>13872236 You can't even read a post and understand its content with kneejerking into automatic condemnation because it triggered something in your head that told you 'this bad'. You have no right to call other people braindead.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 19:00:02 2019 No.13872290 >>13872264 >Plato, Epictetus, Plotinus Garbage

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 19:03:59 2019 No.13872323 >>13872268 The content of it is "They are Marxists and they are actually the REAL anti-intellectuals" aka "blabla marxism" that is all it says.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 19:41:05 2019 No.13872531 >>13872167 It isn't. It isn't even socially acceptable to say climate change isn't real.

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