I see this anti-intellectualism in the world as a major threat to human advancement (and perhaps existence). I am concerned that scientific and technological advancements are happening faster than intellectual and moral progress. If you give a bunch of monkeys a nuclear bomb, it's not going to end well.

This is why I think promoting reason, promoting awareness of cognitive biases (as a result of our evolutionary past), and ridding ourselves of this notion that "standing up for what you believe" (regardless of its validity) is somehow a virtue, is among the most important (and difficult) projects of our time.