One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.
Traditionalism vs new approaches to things will never go away until technological progress at least stops accelerating and levels out a little bit. So, a Star Trek utopia basically, where fundamental physics has largely been nailed down.
That said, education is a separate topic, and has generally been trending in a positive direction for most of the past 4000ish years. This has actually made the conflict harsher, over time imo, as the traditionalists are starting to feel threatened at an existential level. Naturally, they’re going to meet that feeling of threat with traditional methods, and I’ll just let you consider our human history of conflict resolution methods to consider what that might entail.
We just don’t believe in our religious books anymore, though. We used to. And that’s a problem for some people. Like, the biggest problem that can exist for them, its about souls and salvation, not this “crude matter” as Yoda would say.