Beyond Selidor

I really like that post about anti-intellectualism on the left, it chimed very loudly with me! I think there is also a depressing trend of anti-intellectualism among a certain kind of tumblr leftie about the social sciences and also about academia in general that's related. I saw a tumblr post a while back with thousands and thousands of likes that said something like "economics is astrology for white men" - which has so much that's infuriating about it I don't know where to start! and then, the idea that you can know a lot about a subject from tumblr, and blog posts online, and twitter and whatnot, isn't wrong exactly and online resources may well have a queer lens or an anti-patriarchal lens that mainstream textbooks don't have? but the idea that "reading about it online as a teenager" can replace "many years of intensive and rigorous study with other scholars" does hack me off. Possibly you did not need all my thoughts and feelings on this subject but that is definitely a rant that's been brewing for a while!