ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM IN THE BOOK COMMUNITY | Another Hot Take

There has been a lot of discussion recently about anti-intellectualism in the online bookish community, especially booktok and booktube. This was in part sparked by a viral video on tiktok by a bookish creator named Celine, ‪@celineistalking‬. I agreed with her points and I wanted to build on them in this video with some of my own perspective. In this video essay or discussion, I start off trying to understand the perspective of people who may not value reading critically or who simply don't place importance on it. I then delve into defining anti-intellectualism and talking about it in the context of the rise of short form content, surface level reviewing, problematic books and creator/consumer responsibility.

Check out Celine's original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@bookishwithb/...

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Chapters:
(0:00): Intro
(1:46): Reading is ultimately for fun
(3:15): Intellects can be mean sometimes
(6:12): What is anti-intellectualism?
(9:34): Is short form content bad?
(11:10): Does anti-intellectualism affect publishing?
(12:23): Hollow reviews and problematic books
(15:54): No, you don't have to be a literary scholar
(16:37): Creator and consumer responsibility
(20:05): Outro