“Why I am an anti-intellectual”

“Why I am an anti-intellectual:”

Being anti-intellectual is not the same as being anti-intellect. My beef is with a particular social class — the “intelligentsia” — and not with the practice of using one’s intellect to reflect on experience. In my experience, intellectuals (as a class) are ideologically intolerant, easily offended by ordinary humor, and pretentious in their prejudices, which they disguise as universal truths . . .

Intellectuals spray polysyllables like squid ink, to evade the democratic decencies of conversation.

I love that last line.

[via The Volokh Conspiracy]