Sometimes i get the impression that there is a very powerfull anti-intellectual undercurrent present in todays world. Especially in the united states.

I realy think that this anti-intellectualism is a dead-end street. It keeps people from emancipating themselves.

It is a way for people to keep themselves down. To wallow in the misery and nothinges of their own lives. It's no different in that way, from the use of opiates or crystal meth.

It's like people live by the principle: "Don't think, don't feel, don't care, don't, in any way, be mentally active. Don't in any way, be awake. Just numb yourself with opiates, crystal meth or whatever. Just give up on live. Give up on yourself, give up on your childeren, even. And then your grandchilderen. Why finish school, or learn anything? Why try to understand anything about the world, or your own life? Why trying to live like a human being, if that would mean that you'll have to care about stuff, and that you'll have to see what's not right about the world you live in, if you could also, without a care in the world, live like a caged animal?"

I don't see how ANYTHING positive could come from this mindset.

True, it has brought america a hilariously incompetent president-troll who makes jokes at the expense of the disabled and who calls POW's losers, wich is ofcourse funny if you like that sort of stuff.

At the same time though, you don't realy undo things like climate change, leaded tapwater, or overpopulated prisons, by denying their existence.