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== See also == Antiscience – attitudes that reject science and the scientific method Conspiracy theory – attributing events to secret plots instead of more reasonable explanation Counter-Enlightenment, not to be confused with the more recent Dark Enlightenment – Various intellectual stances against mainstream attitudes of the 18th-century Enlightenment Cultural genocide generally – imperial strategy, wherein destroying a society's epistemic elite makes subduing it much easier; Discrimination of excellence Dumbing down – deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content Equality of outcome or Substantive equality as distinct from equal opportunity Harrison Bergeron – 1961 short story by Kurt Vonnegut Just-world fallacy Legacy preferences Luddite – an individual who opposes or resists the use of new technology Myth of meritocracy Noble savage – a stock character Philistinism – hostility to intellect, art and beauty Populism – when the democratic ethos moves into places which it is purported not to belong in; paradigmatically academic research Ressentiment – a tendency to reflexively detract from others, e.g. as regards their greater, implicitly perceived, intelligence; as chiefly described by Nietzsche and Scheler Law of Jante Merit, excellence, and intelligence (MEI) – a framework that emphasizes the selection of candidates solely based on their merits, achievements, skills, abilities, intelligence and contributions Tall poppy syndrome
== Footnotes ==
== Further reading == Dane S. Claussen (2004). Anti-Intellectualism in American Media. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. ISBN 978-0820457215.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti, "'Action Will be Taken': Left Anti-Intellectualism and its Discontents," Left Business Observer. William Hinton, Hundred Day War: The Cultural Revolution at Tsinghua University. New York: New York University Press, 1972. Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. Aaron Lecklider (2013). Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4486-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) Elvin T. Lim (2008). The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199898091.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link) "Anti-Intellectualism and the "Dumbing Down" of America". psychology today. 2014. There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
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