anti-intellectualism
anti-elitism – Attitude that a select, elite group of individuals deserve more influence than others
Alternative facts – Expression associated with political misinformation established in 2017
Creation science – Pseudoscientific form of Young Earth creationism
Anarcho-primitivism – Anarchist critique of civilization
Antiscience – Attitudes that reject science and the scientific method
Neo-Luddism, also known as Anti-technology – Philosophy opposing modern technology
Authoritarianism – Form of social organization characterized by submission to authority
Conspiracy theory – Explanation that invokes a conspiracy
Counter-Enlightenment – Various intellectual stances against mainstream attitudes of the 18th-century Enlightenment
dumbing down – Deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content
Epistemological nihilism – Philosophy antithetical to concepts of meaningfulness
Noble savage – Stock character
Oblomovism – 1859 novel by Ivan Goncharov
obscurantism – Practice of obscuring information
Philistinism – Hostility to intellect, art and beauty
Poshlost – Russian word for a particular negative human character trait or man-made thing or idea
Relativism – Philosophical view rejecting universalism, e.g., about truth