So true.

People are forced into school to "learn how to learn". Yeah no shit, what happens is that many dont want to learn anything anymore.

I have to live in a bubble, because I really enjoy and often have discussions with many people about all sorts of things.

It's not. We'd still be hitting rocks if we were anti intellectual.

I don't think anyone's anti intellectual, people use rhetoric to defend their ideas, to defend their ways, to justify what they've already done. If you used your intelligence and started to agree with people, no one would challenge you, you wouldn't run into anti-intellectual bias.

When you challenge people, or disagree with them, they're going to use rhetoric against you, and that often is portrayed as anti-intellectual. If they think you're a threat they'll attack you by any means possible

People who believe they are intellectual rarely are, or they would be able to couch their points in more accessible ways.

Illiberal populism isn't going anywhere, unfortunately.

People will remain stupid. But I'm somewhat hopeful that in the next few decades we see AI develop enough that it truly constitutes superintelligence relative to us, and that the scalability of it tips the scales of the continual standoff between intelligence and stupidity forever.

Because I have little hope for humanity overcoming its own multiplying stupidity on its own.