Why is there so much distrust for intellectuals in this day and age? Especially in America...

The fact that our education system has turned into a degree mill means that people do not value education, academia, and the people this system produces as highly as they once did.
Diminishing returns in the fields of science also means that there is a lack of innovative creations to restore faith in this fields.

Nothing wrong with marxism, liberal values, LGBT, animal activism, whatever, etc. You are just a contrarian loser.

Debatable. But that user was simply explaining why people don't take them seriously, and I can perfectly understand why now.

No he wasn't

There isn't, "intellectuals" want to be treated like philosopher-kings but instead they're only being treated like intellectuals.

>Especially in America? If anything we need intellectials more than ever today.
Wrong, everyone is some sort of scientist these days. People see through that bullshit and grow distrustful. Also, they know that each one of them is on someone's payroll so they don't believe their bullshit.

Pretty sure he was answering the question of the thread. Read again.

You must be retarded, most people view scientists almost as a priestly caste, they're the ultimate authority on all matters to most people.

If that were true, then climate change would not be an actual topic of debate in the united states.

I did. All it says is blabla marxism blabla liberal degeneracy.

the american right are practically the only people in the entire West that don't defer to whatever Harvard tells them is true.

It doesn't help modern intellectuals can't argue or debate to save their lives, I was watching a British talk show and a barely educated pundit dismantled a distinguished professor so badly the BBC had to change their rules.

>Q: Why is there so much distrust for intellectuals in this day and age?
>A: Because so-called “educated” “intellectuals” in America and Britain are largely pushing philistine Marxist cultural revolution bullshit and are actually anti-intellectuals.
Crazy, isn't it?

This has happened multiple times youtube.com/watch?v=kw6yOOTY08U

well, considering that the american right makes up roughly 50% of the country...
additionally, this lack of respect for education extends to business, having a bachelor's degree (even a BS) is no guarantee of obtaining gainful employment like it once was

"blabla marxism"
wow

This is exacty why they're not taken seriously anymore and rightfully so.

That is literally what the post says are you brain dead?

The label of intellectual is given out like fucking candy these days. Society really needs to cut the wheat from the chaff

By "distrust in intellectials" do you mean "ungrateful lumpenproles failing to see the brilliance of my favorite gurus"?

>lack of respect for education
>BLACK LIVES MATTER [x100]

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It's a caricature of what it says.

Let's look at the great philosophers of this era. The successors of Plato, Epictetus, Plotinus, etc
theamericanconservative.com/dreher/philosophy-jason-stanley/

I wonder why people are skeptical about them

You can't even read a post and understand its content with kneejerking into automatic condemnation because it triggered something in your head that told you 'this bad'. You have no right to call other people braindead.

>Plato, Epictetus, Plotinus
Garbage

The content of it is
"They are Marxists and they are actually the REAL anti-intellectuals" aka "blabla marxism" that is all it says.

It isn't.
It isn't even socially acceptable to say climate change isn't real.