re: #244 Anymouse

On latent anti-intellectualism, I would argue it was never latent. It has always been overt.

Some of it must stem from a sense of cultural and technical inferiority with regard to Europe…we felt that our intellectual backwardness was an outward sign of our our moral superiority over those effete, decadent Euroweenies.

We started to shake that off when we got into the arms and space race with the USSR in the 50’s and 60’s but seem to have fallen back into the notion that education only counts as vocational training.