Knowing lots of subjectively questionable information is not, and never has been, intellect. The problem with so-called intellectuals is they confuse acquired information with intelligence/understanding.
American universities have been neglecting excellence in order to pursue a variety of agendas ā many of them clustered around diversity and inclusion.
Iāll glady take anti-intellectualism if āintellectualismā means that calls for genocide of Jewish people need to be contextualized in order to be considered bullying and harassment.
If you ask someone the time of day and they sit back in their chair, put their fingers together and cough before returning a qualified response, that is an intellectual.
Letās remember this moment when eight months from now some nutbag does a sieg heil at a Trump campaign rally and everyone will pretend like this is the single existential threat to civilization.
My son will be getting his entry level electrical apprentice certification at our local community college. It is a certification program that will allow him entry level hiring under a Master Electrician. It is 4 classes, 12 credit hours at in district rates. He will get hired and continue to progress towards a Master Electrician some time in his early 30s. And he wonāt have any college debt with this.