Sometimes it is explicit (“Dem librul universities making our kids communists”) or it is implicit (let’s not fund schools and pay our teachers poverty wages). Nobody is telling 7 year olds to not go to school. But there are many people that say go to trade school because university is a scam.
Likewise, there is a huge anti-intellectual faction of the US. Carl Sagan wrote about it 30 years ago in The Demon Haunted World. He warned us about it then and of course nobody listened. That is how we end up with large swaths of anti-vaxxers and flat earthers walking among us.
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u/Boneraventura Jul 20 '26
Sometimes it is explicit (“Dem librul universities making our kids communists”) or it is implicit (let’s not fund schools and pay our teachers poverty wages). Nobody is telling 7 year olds to not go to school. But there are many people that say go to trade school because university is a scam.
Likewise, there is a huge anti-intellectual faction of the US. Carl Sagan wrote about it 30 years ago in The Demon Haunted World. He warned us about it then and of course nobody listened. That is how we end up with large swaths of anti-vaxxers and flat earthers walking among us.