It's not. We'd still be hitting rocks if we were anti intellectual.
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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I don't think anyone's anti intellectual, people use rhetoric to defend their ideas, to defend their ways, to justify what they've already done. If you used your intelligence and started to agree with people, no one would challenge you, you wouldn't run into anti-intellectual bias.
When you challenge people, or disagree with them, they're going to use rhetoric against you, and that often is portrayed as anti-intellectual. If they think you're a threat they'll attack you by any means possible
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People who believe they are intellectual rarely are, or they would be able to couch their points in more accessible ways.
So true.
People are forced into school to "learn how to learn". Yeah no shit, what happens is that many dont want to learn anything anymore.
I have to live in a bubble, because I really enjoy and often have discussions with many people about all sorts of things.
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People will remain stupid. But I'm somewhat hopeful that in the next few decades we see AI develop enough that it truly constitutes superintelligence relative to us, and that the scalability of it tips the scales of the continual standoff between intelligence and stupidity forever.
Because I have little hope for humanity overcoming its own multiplying stupidity on its own.
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No I don't see why people would want to become more intellectual. What's the payoff for the effort?
People are lazy, at least the majority are. Then you have the personality types that needs to compete, and they are very useful in positions where you work hard all day to get a pat on the back. But they are more rare. Most of us don't see a reason to be intellectual or to compete, even if we have the capacity.
Because there is nothing that matters anyway. If we were living in a star trek society where we all contribute to a common good and gain respect from the community for it, then we would be motivated. But this is the stone age... Raw capitalism. History books will be written about this age and how pointless it all was.