Jim Wilson
2010-04-02 15:08:45
You’re quite right in saying “anti-intellectual” instead of “anti-Intellectual.” Conservatives are not anti-intellectual when intellectual is used in the same way as stoic or epicurean. When it is used as the title for its namesake philosophy, conservatives are definitely anti-Intellectual. We are the antithesis of Intellectualism, which has for an essential postulate the idea that each Intellectual is the smartest, wisest and best human being who ever lived. Seems that somebody forgot they can’t ALL be the smartest, but don’t tell them! They can’t possibly care that all their ideas originated centuries or millennia past.
