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In reply to the discussion: America's Dangerous Turn to Anti-Intellectualism [View all]The goal is conformity. Intellectualism would require people to critically analyze things. Can't have that!
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If the idiots are willing to do anything it is better than talking the situation to death
Sweeney
Dec 2014
#7
I think book and music bannings and burnings are a phenomenon that breaks out in different places
Dustlawyer
Dec 2014
#18
"Reality has a known left wing bias", and facts clash with the repuke world view. Simple.
on point
Dec 2014
#12
*repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500)
MisterP
Dec 2014
#33
So "A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn" wouldn't be allowed either.
L0oniX
Dec 2014
#26
Yep. His book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" was required reading
The Velveteen Ocelot
Dec 2014
#44
Scientism? Like what? As a computer engineering major I wonder what you're talking about.
alp227
Dec 2014
#54
TPTB desire a new generation of automatons, pliable cows easily herded against their own self
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#47