[Etheon]

Meh, it could be worst. You could have no educational system and a country full of dimwitted drunks (not that I have anything against drunkards or dimwitted people).

As for this "disintellectualisation" (I doubt that's a word), I believe it's a remnant of the baby-boom (the generation born post-WWII, from '45 to '65). During the seventies, people decided that there wouldn't be an intellectual elite anymore (which I more or less agree upon), and that everything should be demystified, watered down for the "average" person. Unfortunately, they might have gone a tad too far in some cases (especially literature), which might be why people sometimes refer to our era (post-modernism) as "the end of ideologies". Although I doubt that's true, it's amusing at any rate.

Anyway, my point is, people who dislike "intellectual" matters aren't necessarily dumb, and anyone who decides to "go with the flow" isn't necessarily an idiot. They're simply doing what people expect them to, and if you should qualify (in a pejorative manner) them of anything, it'd be weak-willed (or lacking any "will to power").

I'm not sure this whole post makes sense with the topic, but I had fun writing it anyway.