Today’s brand of anti-intellectualism infuses the American knowledge elite. As ardent monopolists, they’ve managed to believe they’ve cornered the market on critical thinking.

 Today’s brand of anti-intellectualism infuses the American knowledge elite.  As ardent monopolists, they’ve managed to believe they’ve cornered the market on critical thinking.

陳方隅

看到網路上一大票「台積電要被賣掉了」「台灣要被淘空了」的各種梗圖和造謠大軍，坐個捷運看到旁邊好幾個滑手機的人都滑到這種圖，覺得實在又好氣又好笑。

最近備課的時候看到，2020年底，台積電宣布赴美投資之後，股價530。

然後今天（2026年2月24日）股價1960。

如果有時光機的話......

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（那些反智白藍政客自己或者家人們的財產與子女都放在美國，可能這些股票也買了不少吧？即使嘴巴上一直講什麼台灣被淘空，你看這3萬4千點的股票市場，台灣現在的外貿表現真的是好到一種奇幻的境界）

Today’s brand of anti-intellectualism infuses the American knowledge elite. It stems from the bedrock conviction among tech oligarchs that they have mastered everything and have nothing left to learn. In this cloistered vision of tech-driven learning, they believe that deep intellectual work—the kind you do when you author a complex piece of music, for example—has little or no inherent value. Their disdain for it has fueled their attacks on higher education, the humanities, and learning for its own sake, which they believe has no purpose beyond its inevitable digitization and monetization.

如今的反智主義滲透到美國知識精英階層。這源自於科技寡頭們根深蒂固的信念：他們已經掌握了一切，沒有什麼好學的了。在這種封閉的科技驅動型學習概念中，他們認為深度智力活動──例如創作一首複雜的樂曲──幾乎沒有任何內在價值。他們對深度智力活動的蔑視，助長了他們對高等教育、人文學科以及純粹學習的攻擊，他們認為學習除了不可避免的數位化和商業化之外，別無其他意義。 這樣的例子比比皆是：彼得·蒂爾反對大學入學，並資助那些想放棄大學教育的高中生；馬克·安德森吹噓自己刻意避免反思；蒂爾在Palantir的同事亞歷克斯·卡普幸災樂禍地預測，人工智能將對受過良好教育的女性造成最大的傷害。這些為學習而學習的禍害們本身就是特權教育的受益者，但這並不重要：身為狂熱的壟斷者，他們成功地認為自己壟斷了批判性思考市場。其他人則不需要為學習的艱辛而煩惱，因為他們存在的唯一目的就是成為未來科技體制中的傀儡。 閱讀更多伊麗莎白·斯皮爾斯的文章：

The examples are everywhere: Peter Thiel’s crusade against college attendance and his program that subsidizes high school students who want to forgo it, Marc Andreessen’s boasts that he actively avoids introspection, the gleeful prediction of Thiel’s Palantir colleague Alex Karp that AI will hurt educated women the most. That all of these scourges of learning for learning’s sake are themselves beneficiaries of privileged educations doesn’t matter: As ardent monopolists, they’ve managed to believe they’ve cornered the market on critical thinking. Everyone else needn’t be troubled by the rigors of learning, since they exist solely to serve as drones in the tech regimes of the future.

Read more from Elizabeth Spiers: https://www.thenation.com/....../peter-thiel-marc