What does "anti-intellectual" mean?

Anti-intellectualism simply means skepticism of knowledge and contempt for intellectuals.

Anti-intellectualism, also known as anti-intellectualism, is an attitude that exists in culture or thought, rather than a theory of thought. Anti-intellectualism can be divided into two main categories: one is the opposition to or skepticism of intellect or knowledge, which is considered to be harmful and unhelpful to life. The other is the skepticism and contempt for intellectuals.

Anti-intellectualism from the emergence to the rise of its historical and practical background of the predicament, and can not afford to lose, dead wrong face culture, do not dare to face the reality of the weak mentality. In addition to their own low quality, knowledge disability, but also out of opportunism and sell their souls. Its class likes to use various reasons to embody the expectations of having won, will win and will win, and the propaganda feature is very obvious. In fact, early to admit mistakes, early to admit defeat is more conducive to lighten the load and start over.

The term "anti-intellectualism" became popular with American historian Richard Hofs-tadter's 1962 book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964. Today, there is still a small Hofstadter craze in the American media, which shows that its influence is still not small.