Anti-intellectualism
Cliff Bostock recently wrote an essay for Creative Loafing called, Derrida and Dubya: Anti-intellectualism in America. It was very interesting. Some of his points made me immediately think of the OTO though. I read:
The anti-intellectual typically exhibits little curiosity about other perspectives and no skepticism about his own positions. When ( Read more... )
The anti-intellectual typically exhibits little curiosity about other perspectives and no skepticism about his own positions. When ( Read more... )
I don't find it works that way, at least exactly. Intuition helps point one's thoughts into ground it likely wouldn't have found otherwise, but then the intellect finds what to do with it.
Intuition often comes in things that if someone had studied and read up what they were doing a good deal more, they'd have known and understood. Its nice having rediscovered it yourself, but its not "more valuable" then. In fact, if you've come from a base of knowledge, intuition often then points to undiscovered countries rather than pointing out basics a person felt too snotty to have read books to learn, and these new ideas have then a base still held in reality. A better place to be. Now insulting intuition or thinking childlike openness (which points to a willingness to learn and play) and the occasional sociopath who finds any displays of emotions or feelings inferior (no matter how appropriate), that conduct isn't an asset.
However, too many think getting smarter on a subject is a waste of time, a person's supposed to use their gifts as given and not try to hone them. I totally effing disagree since I wasn't born greatly skilled and enjoy learning, and actually often get somewhere by finding good teachers and trying. Which reminds me I got a class.
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