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Anti-Intellectualism

Anti-Intellectualism

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Nov 16, 2024
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A stupid person asks a skeptical audience a boring question.

Stupid Question: If intellectuals are so smart, why can’t they understand anti-intellectualism?

Snappy Answer: Because anti-intellectuals are incapable of forming sufficiently qualified questions. In other words, yes there is a such thing as a stupid question. These are questions that can lead to no understanding because they are either:

  1. Uninteresting.

  2. Loa…

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