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Are not the ones that know more the ones willing to listen to others? Besides, intellect is not how much info a person can cram into their memory banks.I think some people are simply offended that others know more than them.
Yes. Lots of smart people wasting their brains thanks to their ideological disposition against knowledge.Are not the ones that know more the ones willing to listen to others? Besides, intellect is not how much info a person can cram into their memory banks.
I think some people are simply offended that others know more than them.
And the ironic thing is, that the more a people know, the more they realize how much they do not now.
When I was young I though I knew so much. I was not even aware of all realms of my ignorance.
I think that is true for all of us we are ignorant of our ignorance.
Will be interesting how the mindset of those of today's extreme movements will change in time, if indeed they do. Perhaps they will just go for a political pension.I think that is true for all of us we are ignorant of our ignorance.
Scientists are a commodity that survive and get spread around even after defeat in a war.
I think that is an accurate summation.I think some people are simply offended that others know more than them.
Hence much of the problems we have seen on the streets and news for the past year. Being offended is the new celebrity status.Apparently the discussion of topics which the main group were either unaware of or did not understand was considered offensive to them.
Well Ive seen some of your posts in this section, and they are a perfect test case of whether I personally am offended by people who know more than me.I think that is an accurate summation.
One of my earliest encounters of anti-intellectualism as @SelfSim can testify came from a most unexpected source, an amateur astronomy website.
The site had a science forum with a small core of participants.
I noticed there were frequent posts of either attacking the science or the participants so I decided to create a thread about hostility against science which effectively opened the floodgates.
The vitriol directed against the participants including myself on a large scale was surprising; not in the league of death threats or violence but still anti-intellectualism.
The theme which came out of these negative comments was accusations of elitism.
Apparently the discussion of topics which the main group were either unaware of or did not understand was considered offensive to them.
A term which came out of the States a few years ago is the anti rationalist principle where having an opinion far outweighs any facts to back it.Hence much of the problems we have seen on the streets and news for the past year. Being offended is the new celebrity status.
Why is expressing an opinion which has no facts backing it, so important?A term which came out of the States a few years ago is the anti rationalist principle where having an opinion far outweighs any facts to back it.
So apparently expressing an opinion where you dislike someone because they know more than you do is perfectly valid.
Scientists are 100% guilty of ridiculing people who question them.
I hear you, but the term ''anti-intellectualism'' on the part of materialists and self-styled science lovers is such hubris. The scientific community includes all sorts of "science deniers," if truth be told.I noticed there were frequent posts of either attacking the science or the participants so I decided to create a thread about hostility against science which effectively opened the floodgates.
The vitriol directed against the participants including myself on a large scale was surprising; not in the league of death threats or violence but still anti-intellectualism.
Objectivity is what the scientific method distinguishes and that, in turn, is what distinguishes scientific thinking. If objectivity is removed and replaced with denial of it, then the person doing so, is not thinking scientifically.I hear you, but the term ''anti-intellectualism'' on the part of materialists and self-styled science lovers is such hubris. The scientific community includes all sorts of "science deniers," if truth be told.
That would be the ideal, yes.Objectivity is what the scientific method distinguishes and that, in turn, is what distinguishes scientific thinking.
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