When I came into contact with "anarchist" anti-intellectualism, by the likes of Hakim Bey, John Zerzan, Bob Black... I became an anti-intellectual myself and was so from age 16 to 33. I thoroughly hated everything that had to do with reason, intellect, abstraction, logic, symbolism, language, philosophy, academia... and so on. When I finally grew out of it, I was very glad that my "rational capabilities" where at least still somewhat intact.
The only thing I couldn't agree on with the anti-intellectuals was the hostility towards "art"; I kept following and clinging to art, even in those years.
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