Weighing in on anti-intellectualism and book snobbery. Prompted by the snob-o-meter tag and by @TheBookLeo 's video: soon books won't be intellectual anymore...
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00:00 Intro
02:18 Gender
08:25 Consumerism and class
19:57 Education and democracy
24:30 So what?
28:43 Outro
Sources:
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/do-you-hear-that-it-might-be-the-growing-sounds-of-pocketbooks-snapping-shut-and-the-chickens-coming-home/
https://ourworldindata.org/less-democratic
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2020/07/17/history-privilege-higher-education/
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/75976-can-instagram-make-poems-sell-again.html
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/12/07/misreading-ulysses/
https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2025/men-women-split-reading-real-and-persists-amid-historical-rate-declines
https://youtu.be/HkQ4aGr1mBg?si=paKNKL4q0b1ouPb4
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