I don't think fantasy and sci-fi are necessarily inherently non-intellectual. It's possible to have intelligent sci-fi and fantasy just as much as it's possible to have idiotic non-fiction.
I won't pretend to know the roots of American anti-intellectualism, but I really doubt that the popularity of fantasy and sci-fi has anything to do with it.
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Re: Anti-Intellectualism
Date: 2003-07-06 02:55 pm (UTC)I won't pretend to know the roots of American anti-intellectualism, but I really doubt that the popularity of fantasy and sci-fi has anything to do with it.