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"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" #Quote Isaac Asimov

#intellectualism #USA #Culture #Ignorance

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" #Quote Isaac Asimov

#intellectualism #USA #Culture #Ignorance

“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*

“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*

“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*

“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*

“Maybe that’s why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they’ve been duped by the same pair of eyes.” — *[Francis] “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt*

#Absurdity is the ecstasy of #intellectualism.

Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

#quote #quotes

#Absurdity is the ecstasy of #intellectualism.

Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

#quote #quotes

With respect to being well-read, or educated, it is not just about the exercise of reading, but rather it has to do with an ability to engage with the material, to have the capacity to reflect on the writing and debate its meaning.

Because then, you can translate it to your own experience and further transform how you see the world and your place in it.

#intellectualism #academia #highered #education #selfimprovement #reading #wisdom

With respect to being well-read, or educated, it is not just about the exercise of reading, but rather it has to do with an ability to engage with the material, to have the capacity to reflect on the writing and debate its meaning.

Because then, you can translate it to your own experience and further transform how you see the world and your place in it.

#intellectualism #academia #highered #education #selfimprovement #reading #wisdom

“Majoring in #gender studies to become a barista”

The notion that the #humanities are unimportant compared to stem ultimately comes down to the #fact that there’s less #money in those fields. #Capitalism breeds anti #intellectualism

“Majoring in #gender studies to become a barista”

The notion that the #humanities are unimportant compared to stem ultimately comes down to the #fact that there’s less #money in those fields. #Capitalism breeds anti #intellectualism

A true #enlightened #man knows the benefits of #intellectualism, #romanticism & #socialism by way of mere inference.

Power in numbers cannot be understated, as it is the foundation of #democracy. #PublicEducation cannot be underrated, as it is the foundation of the #sciences. #Culture & #Congregation is there to fulfill basic needs that all humans have. Take away this and the man never grows.

The #manchild is merely a result of the environment being incapable of raising a boy to become a man

A true #enlightened #man knows the benefits of #intellectualism, #romanticism & #socialism by way of mere inference.

Power in numbers cannot be understated, as it is the foundation of #democracy. #PublicEducation cannot be underrated, as it is the foundation of the #sciences. #Culture & #Congregation is there to fulfill basic needs that all humans have. Take away this and the man never grows.

The #manchild is merely a result of the environment being incapable of raising a boy to become a man

Ah, yes, another prophecy of doom wrapped in a delightful cloak of #intellectualism 🧙‍♂️. Apparently, throwing around "Seneca" and "Trump" in the same paragraph makes this regurgitated hot take feel fresh 🍟. But don't worry, folks, we've got front-row seats to this so-called Empire's #slapstick demise 🎭.
https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-american-empire #prophecyofdoom #Seneca #Trump #EmpireDemise #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yes, another prophecy of doom wrapped in a delightful cloak of #intellectualism 🧙‍♂️. Apparently, throwing around "Seneca" and "Trump" in the same paragraph makes this regurgitated hot take feel fresh 🍟. But don't worry, folks, we've got front-row seats to this so-called Empire's #slapstick demise 🎭.
https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-american-empire #prophecyofdoom #Seneca #Trump #EmpireDemise #HackerNews #ngated

With the #election of the #EuropeanParlement nearby, lets remember this quote by Isaac Asimov:

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

#EP24 #EP2024 #democracy #intellectualism

#Rightwing #conspiracy #lunatic #StewPeters believes that a legitimate, viable solution to the complex problems at our southern #border is to line the border with #soldiers, and have them indiscriminately gun down anyone who attempts to cross into America (a maximum B misdemeanor civil offense). This is what passes for #intellectualism and #policy on the right. Just suspend the #Constitution and ignore established #SupremeCourt #precedent related to use of force. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.alternet.org/influencer-shooting-aid-workers-2666122215

#Rightwing #conspiracy #lunatic #StewPeters believes that a legitimate, viable solution to the complex problems at our southern #border is to line the border with #soldiers, and have them indiscriminately gun down anyone who attempts to cross into America (a maximum B misdemeanor civil offense). This is what passes for #intellectualism and #policy on the right. Just suspend the #Constitution and ignore established #SupremeCourt #precedent related to use of force. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.alternet.org/influencer-shooting-aid-workers-2666122215

It seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to be no balancing idea that dystopias are also out of reach. Indeed, they seem quite obtainable if you are to listen to a lot science fiction.

Personally, I think utopias and dystopias are both out of the question for our society in any near future. The first is too perfect and the latter is too imperfect. What isn’t out of the question is improving and failing societies. Again I think people tend to latch onto the failing societies as the way things are going and dismiss improving societies as impossible fluff.

I think that this is largely the triumph of cynicism over intellectualism. This is where the cynics are considered realistic and thus more important than the intellectuals.

I think that the truth of the matter is that cynicism is easier. It is easier to point out problems than to actually fix them. The intellectual not only thinks of the problem, they provide a possible fix to the problem as well and that is harder. This is why I believe intellectuals deserve praise over cynics. As such I prefer the more optimistic entries in science fiction.

But probably the main reason that I would wish to see dystopian science fiction wiped out as much as possible is because politicians keep trying to use the worst of dystopian SF as something to aspire to. We don’t want big brother and we don’t want the handmaid’s tale. But we are at the risk of getting both at the same time! Some politicians do want this, and are too stupid to think of how to run such a society. So they are inspired by dystopian SF. Quit providing a blueprint!!!!!

If the politicians are successful, then the cynics can say their SF foresaw the future accurately. Which gives them even more street cred. This is why we must say intellectualism over cynicism, improving societies over failing societies and even utopias over dystopias!

#cynicism #cynicismRealism_ #DonTProvideABlueprintToDystopia #dystopias #failingSociety #fixingProblems #gettingBigBrotherAndTheHandmaidSTaleAtTheSameTime_ #IWantDystopianSFWipedOut #impossibleFluff_ #improvingSociety #intellectualism #modernScienceFiction #pointingOutProblems #tooImperfect #tooPerfect #utopias

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/

It seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to be no balancing idea that dystopias are also out of reach. Indeed, they seem quite obtainable if you are to listen to a lot science fiction.

Personally, I think utopias and dystopias are both out of the question for our society in any near future. The first is too perfect and the latter is too imperfect. What isn’t out of the question is improving and failing societies. Again I think people tend to latch onto the failing societies as the way things are going and dismiss improving societies as impossible fluff.

I think that this is largely the triumph of cynicism over intellectualism. This is where the cynics are considered realistic and thus more important than the intellectuals.

I think that the truth of the matter is that cynicism is easier. It is easier to point out problems than to actually fix them. The intellectual not only thinks of the problem, they provide a possible fix to the problem as well and that is harder. This is why I believe intellectuals deserve praise over cynics. As such I prefer the more optimistic entries in science fiction.

But probably the main reason that I would wish to see dystopian science fiction wiped out as much as possible is because politicians keep trying to use the worst of dystopian SF as something to aspire to. We don’t want big brother and we don’t want the handmaid’s tale. But we are at the risk of getting both at the same time! Some politicians do want this, and are too stupid to think of how to run such a society. So they are inspired by dystopian SF. Quit providing a blueprint!!!!!

If the politicians are successful, then the cynics can say their SF foresaw the future accurately. Which gives them even more street cred. This is why we must say intellectualism over cynicism, improving societies over failing societies and even utopias over dystopias!

#cynicism #cynicismRealism_ #DonTProvideABlueprintToDystopia #dystopias #failingSociety #fixingProblems #gettingBigBrotherAndTheHandmaidSTaleAtTheSameTime_ #IWantDystopianSFWipedOut #impossibleFluff_ #improvingSociety #intellectualism #modernScienceFiction #pointingOutProblems #tooImperfect #tooPerfect #utopias

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/

It seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to be no balancing idea that dystopias are also out of reach. Indeed, they seem quite obtainable if you are to listen to a lot science fiction.

Personally, I think utopias and dystopias are both out of the question for our society in any near future. The first is too perfect and the latter is too imperfect. What isn’t out of the question is improving and failing societies. Again I think people tend to latch onto the failing societies as the way things are going and dismiss improving societies as impossible fluff.

I think that this is largely the triumph of cynicism over intellectualism. This is where the cynics are considered realistic and thus more important than the intellectuals.

I think that the truth of the matter is that cynicism is easier. It is easier to point out problems than to actually fix them. The intellectual not only thinks of the problem, they provide a possible fix to the problem as well and that is harder. This is why I believe intellectuals deserve praise over cynics. As such I prefer the more optimistic entries in science fiction.

But probably the main reason that I would wish to see dystopian science fiction wiped out as much as possible is because politicians keep trying to use the worst of dystopian SF as something to aspire to. We don’t want big brother and we don’t want the handmaid’s tale. But we are at the risk of getting both at the same time! Some politicians do want this, and are too stupid to think of how to run such a society. So they are inspired by dystopian SF. Quit providing a blueprint!!!!!

If the politicians are successful, then the cynics can say their SF foresaw the future accurately. Which gives them even more street cred. This is why we must say intellectualism over cynicism, improving societies over failing societies and even utopias over dystopias!

#cynicism #cynicismRealism_ #DonTProvideABlueprintToDystopia #dystopias #failingSociety #fixingProblems #gettingBigBrotherAndTheHandmaidSTaleAtTheSameTime_ #IWantDystopianSFWipedOut #impossibleFluff_ #improvingSociety #intellectualism #modernScienceFiction #pointingOutProblems #tooImperfect #tooPerfect #utopias

https://larryrusswurm.com/2023/09/16/dystopias-over-utopias/

This is the #delusional nonsense that passes for #intellectualism on the right. The #insurrectionists were tried by juries of their peers based on the well-established trial rules. After being found #guilty, they were sentenced by impartial judges, many who were appointed by #Trump. And their sentences were significantly lower than the guidelines called for. People like #Palin don't care about the facts. They just want to be right, and they're happy to lie about it.

https://radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/

This is the #delusional nonsense that passes for #intellectualism on the right. The #insurrectionists were tried by juries of their peers based on the well-established trial rules. After being found #guilty, they were sentenced by impartial judges, many who were appointed by #Trump. And their sentences were significantly lower than the guidelines called for. People like #Palin don't care about the facts. They just want to be right, and they're happy to lie about it.

https://radaronline.com/p/sarah-palin-slams-jan-6-sentences-proud-boys-leader-22-years-prison/

Meritocracy's very structure selects for the bureaucratic mentality; might embracing the whims of chance, by lot or by blood, be a better way?

Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2022/11/26/accident-of-birth-a-feature-not-a-bug/

This post's featured image is Edmund Blair Leighton's "A little prince likely in time to bless a royal throne".

#aristocracy #nobility #bureaucracy #democracy #society #history #academia #intellectualism #freespeech

@aallan Thank you for this glorious piece of cultural history.

One of the many reasons I’ve been enjoying this community so much is the depth of intellectual capital.

In many parts of the western world, the world intellectual has become a slur. In this corner of the social media world I feel otherwise

#intellectualism #expertise

@aallan Thank you for this glorious piece of cultural history.

One of the many reasons I’ve been enjoying this community so much is the depth of intellectual capital.

In many parts of the western world, the world intellectual has become a slur. In this corner of the social media world I feel otherwise

#intellectualism #expertise

Finally, after 6+ months, here's my #introduction as well.

I am a #historian of #GraecoRomanCulture at Mainz university, Germany. My research
is focused on structures of communication and the formation of #identities through #education (#intellectualism #rhetoric #philosophy) and #religion. Further interests: #historiography, #anti-monarchic discourse, #ClassicalReceptions.

Thrilled to be part of this #polis.

#histodons #rhetodons #antiquidons
@histodons @rhetodons @antiquidons #noxp