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The whole damn country is built on spite. Screw your taxes, I'll make my own! I'll make my own country, with blackjack! And hookers! Royal Crown soda? Spite. The price of Coca-Cola syrup went up. I actually kind of love that, though. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but I'd say spite is the deadz-beat dad.
Now, I think anti-intellectualism also stems from this spite complex. Do your own research! Don't believe anything actual scientists say. In fact, do exactly the opposite. Don't get vaccines. Roll coal. Become a sovereign citizen and end up right back where we started, refuse to pay taxes.
Do your own research, but don't read because that's nerd activity. So I guess listening to Charlie Kirk, Fucker Carlson, and other mentally incompetent, politically compromised agents of foreign powers is "research. "
I've read that during the collapse of Rome the citizens and politicians behaved ironically in a way that helped accelerate its collapse. I think the same can be said about America.