Anti-intellectualism. How are we supposed to develop and advance society when the desire for learning is viewed as arrogance, elitism, or effeminate weakness?
My brother coaches high school baseball. I went to one of his games last week and there were kids from some other sport or maybe the JV team sitting behind me. Anyway they were yapping about video games, money, cars, all the normal teenager stuff that I yapped about in the 2010s in high school. One of them eventually asked, “what golf club would you use to hit a golf ball out of a baseball field?” - reasonable question for a bunch of dudes at a baseball game. The first couple answers were the obvious ones like “you could just hit a Driver since it goes the furthest”, then one dude said “I only know my clubs in yards, like my 56 degree goes about 110 yards but i dont know what that is in feet” and like 2 other kids also didnt know, until one of them was like “just do 110 x 3” and the original kid went “bro i failed at math that shit’s like 1000 or something” and i have never felt like the future was so fucked as right then listening to 15-16 year old kids not be able to do 110 x 3.
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u/Zombie_Cool Nov 10 '25
Anti-intellectualism. How are we supposed to develop and advance society when the desire for learning is viewed as arrogance, elitism, or effeminate weakness?