intellectualism

You are not the other side, you are just representing the anti-intellectualism that is not too popular on HN.

Making something easy to use doesn't commit one to anti-intellectualism; it just shifts the field of intellectual challenge elsewhere.

Anti-intellectualism isn't a thread winding it's way through our democracy, that it's a cornerstone of our democracy.

You would have to define what anti-intellectualism means first.

On the other hand, this anti-intellectualism is more pronounced in crappy jobs, so it might be a good filtering mechanism.

Try this on for size: TED talks are to intellectualism what Kenny G is to jazz.

As a society, we're continuing to spend resources fighting amongst ourselves to combat bigotry, anti-intellectualism, etc.

Science itself could be called intellectual liberty, intellectualism bound not by class or bureaucracy, but controlled only by the reality it seeks to understand.

In a way, TED is like watching television, and actual intellectualism is like visiting the library for a couple hours and browsing and reading.

Trust me, there really is a strange element of anti-intellectualism in America.

It's some kind of anti-intellectualism but I feel like it must be more specific.

Given this, I wonder if modern anti-intellectualism stems from this sensible defensive mechanism.

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"

Even though the CommodityScrumProgrammer phenomenon has been a massive failure in economic terms-- the Forces of Evil have won on ego terms but utterly dominating their targets, but they've lost money -- it has been a cultural success that has inflicted mediocrity, anti-intellectualism, and subordinacy to "The Business", on the software industry.