GAWD! I HATE ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM WITH A PASSION!
"OOGH! BRAINS, BAAAD! BRAWN, GOOOOD!"
Which tends to mean....
"DIPLOMACY, BAAAAD! VIOLENCE, GOOOOOD!"
or....
"MATURE ARGUMENTS, BAAAAD! AD HOMINEM ATTACKS, GOOOOOD!"
Applied to male gender expression....
"SENSITIVE GENTLEMEN, BAAAAD! MACHO HYPER-MASCULINE BRUTE, GOOOOOOD!"
Look! I get it! You're a "salt-of-the-earth" Farmer Brown/Joe Q. Workingclass who's weirded-out by "Know-Nothing-Know-It-All-Elitists" in "Ivory Towers" who often come up with weird ideas that are dumb in retrospect (Like Hardcore Communism or Eugenics in the Pre-Nazi era). BUT QUIT PAINTING WITH A BROAD BRUSH! YOUR ANTI-BRAIN CRUSADE MAKES YOU DUMB AND EASY TO MANIPULATE!
This guy certainly thought so....
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"I love a nation full of mindless, dumbassed subjects!"
And look where it got him!....
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"Greetings, Mr. Pot! Welcome to Inferno! Enjoy your stay....NOT!"
Well, it's no comfort to the 'There's no afterlife' crowd BUT IT'S COMFORT TO ME, M'KAY? In my worldview, there are NOT 'Karma Houdinis'. Unlike the Abrahamic types, however, I DON'T believe a stay in Inferno is forever. Once Pol Pot has passed his allotted time there, his soul will be pure and he'll go to the Summerland with everyone else. It may be weird for a NeoPagan to believe in a 'Heaven/Hell' concept but A LOT of traditions, be they Abrahamic, Dharmic or even Pagan, have this concept.
Off my tangent about afterlife punishment....STUPIDITY IS NOT COOL!
BRAINS ARE COOL! READ A BOOK!....
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....EVEN ATHLETES AND BRAWNY-TYPES ARE ENRICHED BY THE JOYS OF READING....
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(A sweet close-up of a scene....the precious delighted wiggles of cute little hind-hooves....)