Erasmus, FCD
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Joined: June 2007
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is your friend a randian?
anyway what is the connection between adult anti-intellectualism and the old game kick the nerd on the playground? the archetype is old and probably some variant of whatever the city mouse-country mouse thing is. It's been in movies and television a long time, Homer Simpson's neighbor old whatshis name, nerdy scientists, Steve Erkel, hell Roger from What's Happening, I don't know any more right now. But between that bullshit and a bunch of gym coaches in Bike old man shorts with bulging veins screaming at highschoolers in PE class its little wonder that when kids grow up you get active disdain for people that pursue an intellectual career.
So this year you see more than ever the identity politics thing played out more than ever, cynically called populism, substance is avoided* (partly due to the sound bite nature of communication media) and a race to the bottom for the vote of "Joe Six Pack"**. And it might work.
Hell it will work because that what this is all about. It seems to me the only empirical metric boils down to "Whose face do you wanna see on TV for the next 4 years" ; accordingly folks who generally desire more to talk about during watercooler chat are disgruntled. you can't tell the lipstick from the pig, so much.
Has anyone ever seen statistics about the geographic prevalence of bullying? I don't know how you measure 'anti-intellectualism'. as a irrelevant aside rats start eating each other when they get too crowded. what is this bullshit all about?
*the question is what constitutes 'substance' in such a discussion. i don't know.
**who in the hell is that? a rassler? is that some kind of shitty nashville country music song or something? Around here it is Marvin Meth-Head and Larlene the Heavy Twinkie Operator. OK probably also some wildlife biologists and yuppie tailwater fly fishermen (and apparently a physicist, eh Heddle?). Why does that even work as an abstraction is what I want to know.
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You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK
Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG
the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat
I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles
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