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My point, Buck

Had more to do with putting labels on people because of their thinking processes. I just want them to THINK. Intellectualism is not a bad thing but it IS a pretentious title. I immediately think of William Buckley who was extremely intelligent, an intellectual AND extremely arrogant and pretentious which caused me to reject out of hand most of what he said because he emitted vibes of dismissing other peoples' opinions because they weren't intellectuals. I don't like exclusionary and I'm quite intelligent and have my moments of intellectualism but try not to be pretentious about it (which was one reason I quit over-imbibing in my early 30s--I loved intellectual discussions when I was, shall we say, glowing). I love having an intellectual President and would enjoy sitting down and talking with him about history and its effects on the development of his political philosophies and thinking.

Wikipedia's definition of anti-intellectualism is

^Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of education, philosophy, literature, art, and science, as impractical and contemptible. Alternately, self-described intellectuals who are alleged to fail to adhere to strict standards of rigorous scholarship may be described as anti-intellectuals.^

Truthfully, I have usually adhered to the first definition of anti-intellectualism but I can certainly see from where you derived your definition. I'll have to think on that some more.

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