What's wrong with anti-intellectualism?

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It's on ILM so I want answers with specific response to music and music crit.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://web.mit.edu/drajit/www/hike/images/duh.jpg

― scott seward, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Scooch.

End of debate.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it is created by people who feel insecure .................do you want insecure people in power?

― marissa, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Or would you prefer confident, imperturbable Nazis?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

if hitler was so confident...he wouldn't be killing 6 million people...and he was rejected by every art school he applied for....

and he killed himself...

obviously a man who is insecure...and unstable...

― marissa, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Alternatively, in his own mind, never wrong, up to and including the matter of imposing wanton anti-intellectualism in the name of the alleged greater good.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 March 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Intellectualism promotes open discussion and varying perspectives. Anti-intellectualism promotes xenophobia and willful ignorance. You be the judge.

― souldesqueeze, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Intellectualism kills kittens.

― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 19 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Anti-intellectual crit tends toward the disingenuous. If you're writing to convince a reader of a certain viewpoint (even "it's all about feeling" or "don't think so much about it") you're making a kind of intellectual argument.

― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

What's wrong with anti-intellectualism in music? Nothing.

What's wrong with anti-intellectualism in music writing? Nothing (provided that the writing in question is funny and/or slyly insightful).

― Pye Poudre, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

"Who wants to THINK when you can RAWK?" etc.

― Matos W.K., Monday, 19 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

good music comes out of people who have minds...
not out of ordinary people or below average people who don't have brains...

it has always been that way....

people who don't have minds prefer and favour other people who don't have minds...

in the end...they will all spiral into oblivion.

― marissa, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0962916226.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― sexyDancer, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

i am not saying that some ordinary people don't have minds...but you have to have the an intelligent musical mind to put out good music.

― marissa, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ATA/23439GB~George-W-Bush-Bushisms-Posters.jpg

― latebloomer, Monday, 19 March 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

― vadx, Monday, 19 March 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Dom's finest straw-man angling-rod yet?

― unfished business, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Godwin's Law in as many as five posts. Must try harder ILM.

― blueski, Monday, 19 March 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://themot.org/gallery/d/2142-1/riffraff.jpg

― the table is the table, Monday, 19 March 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

There was even a feverish mind at work in Hasil Adkins.

― souldesqueeze, Monday, 19 March 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

Marissa appears to be using a typewriter, with a really sticky "." key. She probably likes the sound of the carriage return bell.

― blunt, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

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