On: Why is there Anti-Intellectualism?

[Tangurena]

de Tocqueville noticed anti-intellectualism was rampant in the US when he wrote Democracy in America 150 years ago. He wrote to try to explain why the US revolution resulted in a democratic nation, while the French revolution a couple years later turned out so terribly bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America

[nazgulnarsil → Tangurena]

what sort of despotism democratic nations have to fear grows more timely every year as the bureaucratic mess that runs the country gets worse.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/ch4_06.htm