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by intended 424 days ago
As someone else pointed out, yeah - anti education movements are a third order effect of how succesful education is at not making people vote for religious causes and non scientific positions.

The threat of its efficacy, is why, since 1960 onwards, a large chunk of the western world has been figuring out how to bend psychology, rhetoric, and media forces to undermine "Ivory tower" intellectuals.

Yes, a succesful movement has been undermined because it posed a threat to people with the money to spend to fight their battles.

This is old news.