I just started reading S&R and I keep coming across the concept of “philistine/philistinism.” I looked up what that meant bc I had a lackluster education and don’t know words good, and Google came up with something like a “lack of appreciation for the arts,” which didn’t really fit but I kept digging and ended up seeing that he could’ve meant something like “unacademic.”

So just to confirm (at risk of being reductive), to put it into Layman’s terms, is he talking about grillpillers? Or just common folk who don’t wanna “get political” about anything? Or instead, is he talking about the Tucker types, or the sector of the bourgeois who purposely peddle misinformation or anti-intellectualism and populism under the guise of “thinking for the common people” or whateverthefuck? Or is he talking about something entirely different that I’m missing?

If it’s the former, I propose we adopt the term “grillistine” :grillman:

Edit: apologies if this is a dumb question or it’s been asked before please don’t hurt me