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"Hofstadter introduces the three overarching ideologies that largely uphold anti-intellectual strains of thought in the U.S.: evangelicalism, primitivism, and business activism. Evangelicals uphold the heart as virtuous and separate from the mind, primitivists uphold ignorance as a virtue, and business interests tend to find the deliberative nature of intellectuals harmful to the principle of profit." — Jan 11, 2026 11:00AM
"Hofstadter introduces the three overarching ideologies that largely uphold anti-intellectual strains of thought in the U.S.: evangelicalism, primitivism, and business activism. Evangelicals uphold the heart as virtuous and separate from the mind, primitivists uphold ignorance as a virtue, and business interests tend to find the deliberative nature of intellectuals harmful to the principle of profit." — Jan 11, 2026 11:00AM
“A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”
― Julius Caesar
― Julius Caesar
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