No, not at all. I just want to be clear.

Sp00ns, from my point of view, was coming from the position of "culture" being responsible for anti-intellectualism. It's this thing that happens naturally, that is just a factor in being human and living with other people. Mr. Art of Manliness never uses a proper noun in his descriptions - anti-intellectualism is this thing that happens to people, as opposed to something that is done to them.

Which, from my point of view, is incorrect: there's nothing inherent in human society that says "intelligence is bad." My reading and my experience bear out the notion that most people think intelligence is good until someone convinces them otherwise. The act of convincing them otherwise, as far as that's concerned, is just one of many acts perpetrated by people who wish to influence others and convincing people that intellectualism is bad is no more prevalent than convincing people that success is bad, that beauty is bad, that wealth is bad, that any other generally-accepted virtue can be painted as a vice by people looking to benefit.

Does that make sense? Spoons' argument was that anti-intellectualism just sorta happens; mine is that it's one of many methods of slander employed by demagogues.