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LOL! well, at least you have taken the message the elete "intelectuals" have told you! kudos you conform! LOL!
Huh? I think for myself. I thought Reagan was a major buffoon. Bush wasn't as dumb as people portrayed him, but he cultivated his anti-intellectual image.
Having religion doesn't give many people latitude on their answer to such a question. They pretty much have to answer in the affirmative or they feel as though they are betraying their god.
The poll says over 40% of people in the US believe in strict creationism yet in my 44 years on this planet I have never met a single one of that 40%.
BTW this moderately conservative Republican believes that modern man emanated from south central Africa about 250,000 years ago.
My laughing was in response to your premise was that the moon landings were faked and that the USSR was too scared by the US in 1969 to report the fakery to the rest of the world.
If you want to term my laughing at the stupidity of that premise "anti-intellectual" then again I respond.....
Bwah hah hah hah hah hah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it makes you feel any better, I don't get into a heated debate with my gf's special needs son about the Wiggles being better than Barney either. It's just that I can't give you a cookie and pat you on the head IRL.
Huh? I think for myself. I thought Reagan was a major buffoon. Bush wasn't as dumb as people portrayed him, but he cultivated his anti-intellectual image.
What?
Is a president supposed to come off as snobbish and elitist, and dare not speak like and connect with the common man?
Is 0bama acting as an intellectual when he belittle and ridicules people?
Besides his snobbery, and his teleprompter speeches written for him by his aides, what is intellectual about 0bama? Is it simply the image he portrays that you thinks makes him intellectual? You need to listen to the man more often, when his teleprompter fails, and he stumble-mumbles his way into idiocy.
My laughing was in response to your premise was that the moon landings were faked and that the USSR was too scared by the US in 1969 to report the fakery to the rest of the world.
If you want to term my laughing at the stupidity of that premise "anti-intellectual" then again I respond.....
Bwah hah hah hah hah hah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If it makes you feel any better, I don't get into a heated debate with my gf's special needs son about the Wiggles being better than Barney either. It's just that I can't give you a cookie and pat you on the head IRL.
Intelligence is not measured by what a person chooses to believe in order to appear "smart" to others.
Some would call that, "shrewd", but I call it pathetic.
These people are intellectually dishonest.
And, most probably, dishonest in most other attributes, as well.
I highly recommend the book Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell.
Intellectuals in their field of expertise are not the problem. It's the so-called intellectuals who think their expertise in one field makes their ideas superior in another, and the people in power who blindly go along with them, that is an issue. Failed ideas by those intellectuals in that latter category litter history. That's what Sowell's book is about - those intellectuals and their failed ideas.
yep, it's conservative physists and mathmaticians saying there is no such thing as anthropomorphic global warming, it's conservative news weather men claiming that they know that global warming is a lie.
LOL, the world comes here to learn science. If you are suggesting our educational system is failing, I can't disagree. It is time to dismantle the union run system and inject competition into education.
yes, that's exactly what third world countries do. and it works great with them. why would we ever want to follow failed European/Asian education policies?
On this thread we plenty of posts that scorn intellectuals.
Why are Americans so proud to be anti-intellectual?
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Is America anti-intellectual?
