How do we stop anti-intellectualism?

>their support of the Cheeto
most of /pol/ doesn't support him anymore, just redditor newfags who still cling on to stale memes

I've been trying to figure out a way to get /b/ invested in philosophy/literature. Maybe dumping the Introducing x books could help. The problem is that anti-intellecualism is easier and more seductive. It doesn't require any effort.

Like this guy is certainly part of the problem. "Redpilling" requires no effort by its receiver to think critically, and in fact encourages its receiver to be passive

this desu
being an intellectual means devoting unprecedented time to things you feel passionate about

Destroy most of the American south in a massive civil war.

>reading The March

I don't seem to understand what you're getting at, since I've posted on /pol/ maybe once in my life, but I can assure you that I am far from a right-winger, a far left Marxist would be a closer description. I'll tell you how intellectuals in the US voted this election: we voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary election and Hillary Clinton in the general.
Maybe they can be saved then and become far-left socialist intellectuals.

Just get fit, you lazy bastards.

>we voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary election and Hillary Clinton in the general.
You actively want to make this country less white? You deserve an eternity in Hell for betraying your white ancestors of decency, morals, virtue, and uprightness

Stop low IQ third world immigration into high IQ white nations responsible for 99.9% of intellectual endeavors.

I didn't say adopt those things as a philosophy I just said you can do them, and in all honesty if you self identify as an "intellectual" I doubt you are one

>screencapping your own post

Just kill yourself, how goddamn pathetic are you really?

Reason with it.

the greeks were all ripped chads

Wasn't my post though, I'm American

You NEVER have to think critically about the truth. The White Spirit within all of my brothers is the mechanism for welcoming Truth into our hearts, not your sick, Jewish logic. The White Spirit, being pure welcomes Truth passively. Untruth, being impute, cannot mix with the White Spirit and is thusly rejected as such.

Praise Kek!

I am literally standing in the middle of my living room, arm raised aloft, with tears streaming down my cheeks. Praise Kek! Shadilay! Deus fucking Vult

>Jewish logic
Kek

i feel you, because I'm the same, but I think there are intellectuals, they just don't care to pick up sluts, too busy doing work. Also maybe the women wouldn't like them, they care more for the looks, the style.

Bait, right?

Leave until you are 18+ cuck

What did you mean by this?

>I'll tell you how intellectuals in the US voted this election
For Stein, probably, or a Bernie write-in. I was a Johnson voter, but I never claimed to be an intellectual.

>>I'll tell you how intellectuals in the US voted this election
>For Stein, probably, or a Bernie write-in
Why?

Green Party is best party, but Stein's foreign policy was pretty shit

And therein lies the problem. How can one learn anything new when he holds truth as self-evident and complete? How do you teach the guy who 'knows'?

>/r9k/ is somewhat salvageable, but /pol/ is the definition of anti-intellectualism with their support of the Cheeto

you've got it backwards. at least /pol/ sometimes manages to hold halfway decent discussions on interesting topics. /r9k/ is just a sewer of failed /soc/ rejects who haven't had a single illuminating thought in their entire lives

>huu huu muh Cheeto
Stop nominating criminals.

Why do you ELITIST ASSHOLES hate audio books?

Hi Elliot :^)

Gold.

Yeah she didn't want to fund enough terrorist groups.

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>waaah those Veeky Forumsizens are mean bullies

>/r9k/ is just a sewer of failed /soc/ rejects who haven't had a single illuminating thought in their entire lives
A good many of them are trannies in addition to that.

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Extremist politics for the most part are anti intellectual. Good examples of anti intellectuals were the Fascists/Nazis of WWII, but similarly their counterparts on the left who executed the "intelligensia" of many countries. In the modern age it is basically the same thing. Take /pol/ for instance (very anti intellectual mostly) and social justice warriors.

I get really tempted to sometimes return to that teenage nihilist angst. This world is fucked.

When I first saw /r/The_Donald/ I thought the users were posting ironically.

>literally you

>Irregardless
Anyway this is true, everything to them that they don't like gets dismissed as a jewish conspiracy. If you go in there and reply with facts against their hivemind, watch how they'll flat out ignore your posts and keep circle-jerking the same arguments you just refuted, etc etc. I've had some good discussions there but mostly it's just the above.

Where an intellectual will try to debate so they can avoid defeat in the future or adjust their worldview accordingly as to have a more accurate one, a /pol/tard will avoid debate as to not risk having to change their worldview.

What does it mean to be anti intellectual? How would you describe it?

>Anyway this is true, everything to them that they don't like gets dismissed as a jewish conspiracy
Here we see someone mischaracterizing /pol/'s counter arguments of common talking points as "dismissed as a Jewish conspiracy" Can you actually provide a concrete example of this?
> If you go in there and reply with facts against their hivemind, watch how they'll flat out ignore your posts
I have never once seen this occur, usually anyone who disagrees is met with many replies. Can you post a concrete example?
>keep circle-jerking the same arguments you just refuted
What arguments did you refute, and how?

Would you just read the thread.

Nobody offers any real explanation.

This guy is the only one who attempts to but what he says can be boiled down to

>X doesn't make you an intellectual because ???
>Being an intellectual is a lifestyle because ???
>This philosophy is banal because ???
>If you like it you're not an intellectual because ???

reminder that Veeky Forums is comprimised.

The vast majority of anti-intellectualism is justified.

IQ, politics, philosophy... I hate people asking obvious questions for pedantic reasons. Either make a point or contribute. You're not showing anyone a cool trick

Knowing what it is you're talking about isn't pedantic. Your view on what constitutes "anti-intellectualism" could differ wildly from someone else's. How can you even have a discussion if we can't agree on what it is we're talking about?

Nobody felt the need to ask that, it was explored already in the above replies

Jesus dude, my memory isn't that fucking strong but I'll try.

>Here we see someone mischaracterizing /pol/'s counter arguments of common talking points as "dismissed as a Jewish conspiracy" Can you actually provide a concrete example of this?
Can't remember, but you literally just have to go on /pol/ and browse for an hour to see them blaming the jews for every little minutea. Oh yeah, one example was Trump flipflopping on everything and not behaving like they wanted him to, I saw multiple posters claiming and discussing how the jews were pulling his strings.

>I have never once seen this occur, usually anyone who disagrees is met with many replies. Can you post a concrete example?
Literally go into any Sweden thread. I can't remember the specifics since I don't have photographic memory, but it was something factually inaccurate that was made clear by even the article itself that they cited. Something along the lines of "Sweden removes all border guards from the Danish side" and they were all like "cuck Sweden LOL LET MORE IN etc" for 200 strong posts or so, where within the first 10 posts or so, which were made by a Dane and myself pointed out how the border guards, as stated within the article, were just to be moved to the Swedish side of the border.

>What arguments did you refute, and how?
The one above, and that's just one example. I don't know how perfect your memory is that you have a bank filled with examples you can just whoop out. It didn't take many of these for me to give up on /pol/ and stop browsing and replying.

Weightlifting preserves the brain better than everything other than Aerobic exercise you brainlet.

Sex is good for you too. So is having a positive attitude about life.

Seriously ''''intellectuals'''' that think that exercise is incompatible with being brainy trigger the fuck out of me.

How the fuck do you get to current year and not fucking figure out the link between exercise and preventing brain aging? Exercise promotes oxygen flow to the brain and strengthened neurons. The stereotypical weakling genius gets alzheimers at 70.

I lift (have been for 7 years) and don't do cardio but I don't believe this. Do you have any sources?

Nerd holocaust preferred.

Here's some

neurology.org/content/86/20/1897

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258000/

Most of the research focuses on aerobic exercise but even strength training helps your endurance and such.

Note exercise does NOT unfuck you once neurological decline has already happened.

Notably I have not seen good evidence of mental activity like reading actually slowing down cognitive decline. I only know of strong evidence for exercise.

Another

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3514552/

First one is cardio
Second mentions
>Limited studies have also specifically addressed resistance exercise (effort against weighting or resistance) and cognition; however, this literature is currently insufficient to draw conclusions. Hence, we primarily focus on aerobic-type exercise that potentially leads to physical fitness.

This one seems more akin to cardio
>The 60-minute classes were led by certified fitness instructors. For RT, both a Keiser® Pressurized Air system and free weights were used 3. Participants performed 2 sets of 6–8 repetitions and loading increased when sets were completed with proper form. The AT program was an outdoor walking program. The training stimulus started at 40% of one’s age-specific target heart rate (i.e., heart rate reserve; HRR) and progressed to 70% to 80% of HRR. The BAT program consisted of stretching, range of motion, balance exercises, and relaxation techniques 3. This group served to control for confounding variables. Participants were questioned about the presence of any adverse effects and were monitored by instructors.

Don't get me wrong though, lifting is still necessary so you can function like a young adult for a much larger part of your life. So you won't be a skelly that can barely move at 60-90 etc. I mean, it actually strengthens your joints and ligaments aside from just making you stronger (this effect is more pronounced when starting young afaik, probably has to do with the levels of circulating HGH & possibly test) Dudes like this inspire me youtube.com/watch?v=uKJaZDGVNWA

>whiteness and masculinity and tradition
replace a spook by three spooks

wew

Basically though, the idea that being out of shape = smart is complete bullshit. It's the other way around.

Nerdy weaklings just like to tell themselves they're smarter than bodybuilders, whose lack of intelligence is also a meme. It gives them somebody to feel better than. If they were smart at all they would be exercising. Perhaps they wouldn't necessarily be eating 5000 calories a day, injecting steroids, and working out six days a week, but it is a profoundly brainlet thing to do to not exercise whatsoever.

When somebody brags about being smart and then talks about how they don't exercise I laugh at them behind their back.

Third one, which I was trying to find, is actually lifting. Abliet among seniors.

I don't have a comment I just am dumping pictures of the intersect between intelligence and exercise.

Politics are now about memes and when I get upset about it I get called a shill.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders'_Dank_Meme_Stash

I agree completely.

>When somebody brags about being smart and then talks about how they don't exercise I laugh at them behind their back.
I tend to just confront them about it and ask why they'd want to forego all the benefits of exercise. Usually boils down to laziness, which is fair enough. I don't do cardio anywhere near as much as I should either so there you go.

>Third one, which I was trying to find, is actually lifting. Abliet among seniors
Looked more like "bodypump" to me, which is something more like cardio. I don't tend to have a very steady high heart rate throughout my workout (5m breaks etc, homegym master race).

What do you mean by anti-intellectualism?
Are you talking about the lack of intellectualism or about some movement that is working against it?

Every experienced lifter on Veeky Forums knows Jim Wendler full of shit.

I do homegym too, but I keep pauses shorter. Just try shortening them gradually, it'll cost you nothing and is very likely to prove beneficial or at the very least you'll waste less time resting.

There is a difference between exercise for health and exercise for strength.

>I've been trying to figure out a way to get /b/ invested in philosophy/literature. Maybe dumping the Introducing x books could help

that's all you need to do. when people see something enough times they become more accepting of it. this is how all memes begin - they're spammed until everyone likes it.

>this really is an article

Health and fitness is fine, and a good idea, but the steroid/gymbro/zyzz/powerlifting/rippetoe culture has little to do with either health or fitness. Bodybuilders can be funny, but they're rarely smart.

99% of the great intellectuals and writers of note never squatted or deadlifted a day in their lives, so obviously neither are necessary to be a great intellectual.

It's always interesting to see lifters who think that everyone else should be equally obsessive about bench pressing or the circumference of their thighs. Most of the DYEL, never-skip-leg-day and you-gotta-lift-bro crowd are simply sharing their body dysmorphia, not giving useful advice.

"If all you have is lifting, the answer to everything looks like a barbell" - t. gym rat.

>Abliet
I'm assuming this is a typo, but it's funny when you actually hear people pronounce the word the way you typed it.

Was the wisdom of /fitlit/ really lost this quickly?

>You can't be healthy, happy and strong if you want to be an intellectual

lol stop making excuses for yourself and start squatting

What? Strength training is what you do if you lift for health. Ridiculous 6-7 times a week bro splits is what you do if you want to look good

t.never read a book

>ridiculous
An hour or two in the morning really isn't that bad. It sets a good pace for the rest of the day

True, but I meant to say that strength training (combined with cardio) takes less time and improves your health more than bodybuilding / cardio does.

Anti-intellectualism doesn't exist, people just don't care about the hundredth commentary on Marx or Hegel published this year, publish something people actually care about.

>People in this thread using politics and their adopted intellectual identity to justify sitting on their ass all day

WEW

Go exercise m8. Lift, run, bike, swim, play a sport, whatever. Leading an active lifestyle is healthy and fun.

>unironically expecting someone who uses Veeky Forums and hackers in the same sentence to be able to influence an entire board

Fucking nerds

Some of the greatest Minds in history have advocated physical activity as an integral part of being a complete human being

Just because you didn't put any points in strength doesn't mean all of your points went into your intellect.

You don't see people in fit running around bitching about nerds that are outsmarting them. It's because it doesn't happen that way.

So fuck off nerds. The guy you quoted in the original post has written more books than you've probably read.

I don't understand why there are so many anti-intellectual comments, obvious propaganda and generally barely thought out posts here. Sometimes the humor is fun but, most of the time, this board seems to be about taking advantage of the anonymous structure to shill idiotic thoughts that relate more to politics than literature. Maybe it's a Veeky Forums thing, I don't know.

You can stop it if you eat a ton of protein. Squat heavy. Push heavy objects. Have sex. Love life.

Is that pic supposed to be anti-intellectual?

In my experience the whole fitness community isn't anti-intellectual but are just indifferent and want to look good and feel good. They aren't explicitly anti-intellectual though, especially considering the exercise and nutritional science they tend to dive into.

Intellectualism is shit, and the idea that it's good or supposed to be held in high esteem is completely self-referential.

By stopping capitalism.

Don't be fragile.

By re-uniting knowledge, arts and reason to the sacred.

Stop being a closed bubble that thinks of itself as a privileged class whose justification for existence is completely self-referential. Marxism is dead and buried as an ideology, it may be possible to salvage some good insights from it but you'll need to keep waiting on the revolution of the proletariat, the EU (which was supposed to be the future) is in a more or less perpetual state of crisis, and you have no answers to the problem (and yes, it is a problem whether you want to talk about it or not) of mass immigration into Western countries.

>exercising for aesthetics
>not exercising to defend yourself and others while strengthening your willpower and ability to face conflict

Combat sports are best sports, but obviously a lot of professional fighters are still shitty people. It's best to incorporate them holistically into your lifestyle.

+1

5/3/1 is a legit program though

IQ is a meme.

If you truly believe in IQ, you would see asians as superior in most intellectual endeavors.