Intellectuals vs. The Internet | It's Been a Minute
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- What good is a Humanities degree? According to two intellectuals, Dr. Ally Louks (x.com/drallylo...) and Jason Stanley (campuspress.ya...) , the Humanities help us better connect to other humans. According to a lot of online haters, they're worthless.
Dr. Louks recently posted her Cambridge University PhD thesis online and was piled on by a loud group of right-wing anti-intellectuals. Brittany, Dr. Louks, and Jason Stanley, a professor of Philosophy at Yale University investigate the backlash to Dr. Louks, higher education at large, and why "anti-intellectualism" is prevalent in Republican politics.
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6:00, this weirdly made me think of the difference between British and US academia. What the Oxford grad said was a profound examination of something usually thought of as trivial, and I can easily understand a spectrum of reactions from dismissive to laudatory. The Yale prof plays into the fact that most NPR listeners feel disgust toward Trump, a tack which guarantees a single reaction. There is inevitably a certain amount of anti-intellectualism in political speech of all sorts, but for me this discussion made me gain respect for Oxford OVER Ivy League confirmation bias.
To frame this as "anti-intellectualism" while dropping the name of "cardi b" is just............. smh.......Babylonian. up is down and down is up.
Ya think?