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Anti-Intellectual Memes and How To Combat Them?

1 Name: Maggotsworryguts !YqKvPdjnc. 2025-07-18 21:46
I wish there was a simple and easy way to combat these but I don't think there is. Because whenever I look at a piece of information that is meant to illicit paranoia and distrust in a person (specifically towards various institutions, ideas and established scientific theories) I notice the same pattern every time.
The meme/cognition hazard reinforces the observers previously held belief with the help of an additional element,weather it be a quote from an authority figure or a thought terminating cliche.
"It's common sense", "Trust your eyes", "This authority said so".
There is also what I would call the "Fisheye" effect, where there is an extreme focus on one aspect of a concept or situation to the point where outside possibilities are hard to introduce or consider, lest these things be seen as distractions or as being dismissive.
2 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-19 00:30
just forget about memes all they are is propaganda dont think of them as intellectual or they are a sure way for feds to feed you their agenda with one gaze
3 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-19 02:34
I care very little for defending scientific concepts. That being said, the anti-intellectual sentiment worries me. There’s genuine antipathy, ignorance, and hostility to real knowledge. This is now extremely widespread in society among all types of people. You face hostility everywhere from all types of people who usually want you to say what they want to hear. Nobody likes having their bubble popped, and they will reach for all kinds of theories to discredit and attack you. The humanities is on the ropes.
4 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-19 17:53
You can't combat anti-intellectual memes when our entire society is now anti-intellectual
5 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-19 23:48
Im post intellectual I no longer necesitate a major part of my brains functions particularly those need for creative, forward and critical thinking skills, mostly because I choose to keep living comfortably, I know that I am actively not feeding into the overarching agenda of society or the rebelious ambition of those against current societal ideals, which are sure to change, but... therefor it means any change I bring about today will be erased and replaced.
In a world where things only change based on the collective unconcious's needs, one measly person choosing to not participate means nothing, the world doesnt fall apart when lower class citizens loose their jobs, its just them that suffer, one only thinks of how awful the future could be once they start to suffer, but as long as the ones suffering are below them they will simply utter, "get a job, shouldve stayed away from drugs, shouldve paid attention in school" and so on, its as if our ego is a mockery of our empathy and our empathy simply and ironic joke to our ego, you can have a million stories with the same message, but the human will simply hide behind a veil of weakness not wanting to admit its pitfalls saying "yes I see all that is wrong in my system, but im just a lowly individual" as they actively seek to step and tear at the backs of others to get above them, not for freedom or wealth, but to simply declare, "I AM KING, AND YOU ARE ALL BELLOW ME, EVERYONE!, BE MINE PROXY AND DOMINATE MINE ENEMY" there is no empathy without reward, but this means that I can simply sit back and watch them all rip eachother to shreds, it does not matter what seat I get but aslong as i do not jump in the pit, I can relax, doesnt matter what i have, after all even if that most prized possession was reachable we would have to fight just as hard to keep it as to get it, to someone like me that prize would be the love from someone who I can have an exciting dynamic with and a whole lot of sexual pleasure, but eitherway expecting perfection out of another human being is simply stupid and outright retarded.
6 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-19 23:57
you can go down fighting or you can simply accept it and chill out, be a ghost.
7 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-20 01:27
>>5
There is no world to fall apart. Why hasn't everything disappeared yet?

You can't resist these trends. These anti-intellectual memes. What you can do is speed everything up. Destabilize. Disturb. Make them uncomfortable. Above all, you must speed things up. Speed. Speed. Speed. If you can't cycle between 24 sounds, 36 moving images, and pack that into a 10 second video. You can't do anything. No time for relaxation. No time for sexual pleasure. Its just all now. You gotta go go go. Speed.
8 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-20 04:31
Stupid just chill everyone s caught up in this shit no matter what, you can be kept up on trends by people you interact with
9 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-20 06:32
Yippee soy anti estupido mas que nada puñetas
10 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-20 11:43
>>7
Atari teenage riot
11 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-21 19:51
>>10
ATR are gutless trash
12 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-22 16:45
>>11
fuck you
13 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-22 19:47
>>11
ATR is extremely comfy music
16 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-27 05:52
>>14
>>15
uncomfy discussion, go elsewhere to discuss
17 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-27 09:15
ATR is trash music. I will not listen to garbage made by GERMans.
18 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-27 11:31
why would refuse to listen to music by germans?
19 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-27 19:22
german music took an absolute nosedive after krautrock slash kosmisch, but i will admit i adore adore adore that Nena song

every music teacher ever always dedicating an entire class to playing and analyzing that song and its' lyrics while waxing poetic about the fall of the wall did eventually seep into me as corny as patriotism is

anyway i think the main riff to Generals & Majors by XTC pairs really well with 99 Luftballons, i'm mostly saying the main riff instead of the whole song because i think the verses and rest of the song feel like prancing satire while the riff really feels like watching something soar above and beyond into the sky like a school of red balloons about to start a war
20 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-27 19:49
Germany happens to be home to some of my favorite musical movements,
so the spirit of this thread I will combat your conception with some links to my favorite living German musician.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwTO9Fs1_0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddYNlyRgIlU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89WAOif_WEc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGG4PZwHPa0
21 Name: Anonymous 2025-07-27 19:53
ill admit classical is a hard blindspot for me but you did make me remember my fondness for arvo pärt after i heard spiegel im spiegel whispering from the speakers through a massive underground parking garage. ethereal experience so thank you

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