I'm with Patrick here. The only real evidence for increasing dumbness I could see was the knee-jerk assumption that anything presented on video was automatically less intelligent than anything presented as a book. And that, I'm afraid, was Ms. Jacoby being stupid, not Americans. Inability to adapt to new technology is not something to be proud of.
None of which is to say that there isn't a large amount of anti-intellectualism out there. I'm just not convinced it is getting any worse just because the media and politicians now pander to it rather than condescending to it.
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Date: 2008-02-18 08:43 pm (UTC)None of which is to say that there isn't a large amount of anti-intellectualism out there. I'm just not convinced it is getting any worse just because the media and politicians now pander to it rather than condescending to it.