I'm fine with people who really just don't know stuff. But they should really listen when you try to explain something to them.
* cough cough * flat earthers?
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Is the world anti-intellectual or anti-“know-it-all”-poindexter?
I haven’t noticed anti-intellectualism but the reject of disrespectful and bad-faith discourse.
This is probably inevitable because science has been politicized in America.
For most of the US, knowing anything beyond basic math and literacy is "being a Poindexter".
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You're talking about mostly religion. Not one specific but for all of them to work they have to dumb people down, otherwise why would you follow crazy rules if you can have your faith at home without crazyness?
I believe that in a far future, as humanity gather more and more knowledge keeping religion up will be kind of hard, but until them we will have to go through the "dark ages of christianism" where our lifes will be controled by some old conservarive people. But they will die out.
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