https://allegralaboratory.net/brexit-trump-and-public-anthropology/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Mon, 16 May 2022 19:19:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/brexit-trump-and-public-anthropology/#comment-80095 Sun, 24 Jul 2016 10:15:02 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=20572#comment-80095 There is a deep seated anti-intellectualism in the UK, fuelled by foreign owned media outlets, politicians and even much of the BBC. It is no wonder that ‘expert’ views of the dangers of Brexit were so easily dismissed as scaremongering, a rebuttal against which there was no logical comeback. Dismissing intellectual debate and training is an essential and invariable trait of authoritarian regimes everywhere.

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