Is modern society anti-intellectual?

[Chinese Regions]

There is lack of ambition, space programs are staggering ever since the space race ended.
People pushing for arts over sciences in schools
Chemophobia i.e. "Dihydrogen Monoxide" puts fear into people's head while "Water" does not, "lol our product haz no artificial colourings" and people demanding necessary labels to be put on GM foods.
The "school is not cool" attitude of people nowadays is distressing.
When people turn away from mainstream religion instead of turning to science and atheism they turn to new age beliefs, why?

[Zottistan]

Partially. Far too much so.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

There is lack of ambition, space programs are staggering ever since the space race ended.
People pushing for arts over sciences in schools
Chemophobia i.e. "Dihydrogen Monoxide" puts fear into people's head while "Water" does not, "lol our product haz no artificial colourings" and people demanding necessary labels to be put on GM foods.
The "school is not cool" attitude of people nowadays is distressing.

Care to source the bolded?

And what's wrong with things being labelled, especially if they're genetically modified? An informed public is an empowered public.

[Conscentia]

Somewhat. Less so than in the past.

[Fulflood]

People pushing for arts over sciences in schools

Oh please.

[The Parkus Empire]

There is lack of ambition, space programs are staggering ever since the space race ended

>implying the space race was about intellectualism and not about pardoning Nazi scientists so we could have a bigger political penis than the USSR

People pushing for arts over sciences in schools

Is there some sort of study about this?

Chemophobia i.e. "Dihydrogen Monoxide" puts fear into people's head while "Water" does not, "lol our product haz no artificial colourings" and people demanding necessary labels to be put on GM foods.

Most people do not give a shit.

The "school is not cool" attitude of people nowadays is distressing.

Back in the greaser days, ditching school made you a social pariah among your peers.

[Chinese Regions]

There is lack of ambition, space programs are staggering ever since the space race ended.
People pushing for arts over sciences in schools
Chemophobia i.e. "Dihydrogen Monoxide" puts fear into people's head while "Water" does not, "lol our product haz no artificial colourings" and people demanding necessary labels to be put on GM foods.
The "school is not cool" attitude of people nowadays is distressing.

Care to source the bolded?

And what's wrong with things being labelled, especially if they're genetically modified? An informed public is an empowered public.

Because they are unnecessary, it's necessary to warn if a product contains nuts or milk because some people have allergies, what harms has GM foods done?

[Fulflood]

Care to source the bolded?

And what's wrong with things being labelled, especially if they're genetically modified? An informed public is an empowered public.

Because they are unnecessary, it's necessary to warn if a product contains nuts or milk because some people have allergies, what harms has GM foods done?

Care to explain what is un-intellectual about arts and humanities?

[Blakullar]

Perhaps if us Brits stopped giving knighthoods to people who (think they) can sing, and started to give them to people who are actually furthering our progress as a society, it might get us back into the swing of praising intellectuals instead of rebuking them for being "uncool".

[Conscentia]

greaser days,

What?

[Lancaster of Wessex]

Care to source the bolded?

And what's wrong with things being labelled, especially if they're genetically modified? An informed public is an empowered public.

Because they are unnecessary, it's necessary to warn if a product contains nuts or milk because some people have allergies, what harms has GM foods done?

YOU say they are unnecessary.

YOU are not everybody.

YOUR opinion does not trump that of others.

[Ethan Foley]

Perhaps if us Brits stopped giving knighthoods to people who (think they) can sing, and started to give them to people who are actually furthering our progress as a society, it might get us back into the swing of praising intellectuals instead of rebuking them for being "uncool".

I don't think stop giving bad singers knighthoods is the source of the problem...

[Krasny-Volny]

No, it just thinks inside a box.

[Chinese Regions]

Because they are unnecessary, it's necessary to warn if a product contains nuts or milk because some people have allergies, what harms has GM foods done?

Care to explain what is un-intellectual about arts and humanities?

While I enjoy them they aren't useful, when has a medical breakthrough involved poetry? You can at least learn from past mistakes in history.

[Blakullar]

Perhaps if us Brits stopped giving knighthoods to people who (think they) can sing, and started to give them to people who are actually furthering our progress as a society, it might get us back into the swing of praising intellectuals instead of rebuking them for being "uncool".

I don't think stop giving bad singers knighthoods is the source of the problem...

Did I say it was?

[Krasny-Volny]

Care to explain what is un-intellectual about arts and humanities?

While I enjoy them they aren't useful, when has a medical breakthrough involved poetry? You can at least learn from past mistakes in history.

And if nobody studied poetry any more, we would lose it.

[Forster Keys]

The proles these days are simply beyond contempt.

[Hatsunia]

People pushing for arts over sciences in schools

Are you talking about the people in this thread?

I am completely horrified... Education in the US is becoming more and more ruthless, coldly practical and opposed to creative thinking.

[The Parkus Empire]

greaser days,

What?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greaser_(subculture)

[Chinese Regions]

Because they are unnecessary, it's necessary to warn if a product contains nuts or milk because some people have allergies, what harms has GM foods done?

YOU say they are unnecessary.

YOU are not everybody.

YOUR opinion does not trump that of others.

Why are they necessary then? GM foods are suppose to be designed to benefit society, that's why they are genetically modified, no where yet as anyone designed GM foods to take over the world or some shit, they've been engineered to not go off as easily, be more nutritious, grow larger survive frost etc tell me what harm is being done?

[Inquilabstan]

There is lack of ambition, space programs are staggering ever since the space race ended.
People pushing for arts over sciences in schools
Chemophobia i.e. "Dihydrogen Monoxide" puts fear into people's head while "Water" does not, "lol our product haz no artificial colourings" and people demanding necessary labels to be put on GM foods.
The "school is not cool" attitude of people nowadays is distressing.

I would say yes, but not for these reasons. (Who is to say that intellectualism is exclusively scientific?)

I think that popular culture is a good indication of this. It is increasingly materialistic, and without message. We live in a world increasingly devoid of ideas and philosophies, with broad labels being used to explain increasingly complex issues and a complete lack of emphasis to educate yourself. It's like people live on an IV of simplicity.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

Care to explain what is un-intellectual about arts and humanities?

While I enjoy them they aren't useful, when has a medical breakthrough involved poetry? You can at least learn from past mistakes in history.

You know condemning arts as "un-useful" because it hasn't say, cured an ailment, is just another type of "anti-intellectualism", right?

Oh, the irony.

[Conscentia]

While I enjoy them they aren't useful, when has a medical breakthrough involved poetry? You can at least learn from past mistakes in history.

And if nobody studied poetry any more, we would lose it.

Well that's just nonsense.

[Divair]

Less than in the past, but yes.

[Priory Academy USSR]

No.