philistinism

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Calling them "lazy" without even casually experiencing their work looks to me like typical nerd philistinism.

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a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

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noun

a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for philistinism.

noun

a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

Example sentences

Calling them "lazy" without even casually experiencing their work looks to me like typical nerd philistinism.

Or was it that they simply thought of Nazi violence and philistinism as an irrelevant sideshow compared with the joys of Schiller and Schubert?Depends which papers they were reading.

Just that it's a shame programmers tend towards philistinism, and that office culture and beer culture overshadow any appreciation of history, philosophy, and the arts.

These kinds of discussions aren't very rigorous and reveal a basic philosophical illiteracy and philistinism at work.

I’m finding as I go into industry more and more that there’s this philistinism amongst programmers.“Quality code can’t be achieved because look...”“Accurately estimating software is impossible because look...”It’s so easy to claim these things.

From Wikipedia: "philistinism describes the social attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect; the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine.