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What's the most toxic mentality that people have nowadays? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What's a thought pattern that's way too common and damaging to society?

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[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anti-intellectualism

Making fun of people for reading or learning or knowing "too much" about a thing

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

As an autistic person, I kind of get self-conscious when people point out that I know a lot about a subject. Even when they mean it as a compliment it still kind of bothers me and I'm not sure why. For me, the amount I know about most topics doesn't feel impressive to me at all. People around me think I have encyclopediac knowledge of movies when I actually know very little about it compared to how much there is to know, I just know more about it than most of the people around me and am better at remembering facts than most people around me

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

i don't see anyone making fun of it, but i do seem people characterizing intellectuals as either disconnected and stuck up; or depressed and childless; or godless and doomed to hell for it and all of it is done with the vaguely hidden intention of warning everyone else against intellectual pursuits or else they'll end up like disconnected, depressed, and/or godless.