One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.

  • MissJinx@lemmy.world
    44·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Chunk@lemmy.world
      35·
      9 months ago

      Unfortunately I don’t think this is mostly religion. A lot of people are stupid. Sincere question, when was the last time you talked to a normie?

      I chatted with my hairdresser yesterday. She didn’t know:

      • what a DMZ is.
      • who SBF or Elizabeth Holmes are.
      • that there is an anti trust case against Google.
      • the word “query” as in “search query”.

      For Halloween my girlfriend and I are going as SBF and Elizabeth Holmes. She commented that “no one outside [my] little circle is going to know who those people are.” I started to disagree but, in a way, she’s right.

      Don’t get me wrong, she’s wonderful and hilarious and chill af. She’s just a bit dumb. And that’s okay but it’s true.

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        I have a background in networking.

        I know what a DMZ is.

        I have no idea what these 2 are.

        Yes, I heard about it at some point.

        I would have thought a fair few number of people knew that. Maybe it’s just your barber who doesn’t care enough.

        Not being able to give correct answers to these questions (one of them being fairly technical) doesn’t indicate anything about her intellect though

      • MissJinx@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        None of those as exemples of inteligence they are exemples of ignorance, lack of information, that can happen either by lacking access to or not caring about.

        • Chunk@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          Well the point to my comment wasn’t how smart I may be, it was that I feel like those topics are pretty standard things. If you watch or follow the news you’ll pick it up pretty quickly.

          Also I didn’t insult my girlfriend. I insulted my hair stylist. But I don’t think she cares we have a good rapport.